Archive for September, 2006

Random chat using XMPP/Jabber, anyone ?

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

A Random Chat applet hit digg recently. It allows you to chat with a random stranger visiting the website at the same time as you. It’s a good idea, but it would really be much better to have something similar based on Jabber (and maybe it could become a Jabber killer app’ ?) Some thoughts: [...]

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Of bounties, donations and summers of code influence on volunteer participation

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Stuff like the Google Summer of Code, the GNOME Women’s Summer Outreach Program 2006, the Sourceforge donations system, or Dunc-Tank (an experiment to see how targeted fund raising can improve Debian) are generally considered a good ideas. However, experiments have shown that sometimes, paying volunteers decreases the overall participation. Luis Villa wrote about this a [...]

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