Crowd funding of plugin development

Sent you an email.

I am happy to back this and do some of the coding, working on cmsB again after be away for a long time, current project is a WP to cmsB membership system.

Larry

Hi Jerry

I'm not sure if I have understood your post correctly. Are you looking for developers to create crowd-sourced plugins? If so, I'm not the right man to be included, I generally use the services of IT when I need something that is beyond my skill set.

As more of a front-end designer than back-end developer the usual process for me is: approached by a customer asking for something beyond my skill set AND wanting the work to be completed in super-fast time, I ask IT to quote for the work AND ask them to complete it in super-fast time. More often than not the job costs sub-$300 and I can pass that cost onto my client. It is the fast turn around that works well, and I don't think crowd-sourcing would suit that.

Having said that I do have dozens of ideas in my head that will probably not ever see the light of day because I don't have them time or money to implement them on my own - they are not time-sensitive so crowd-sourcing would be ideal for them.

I suggest first we should wait for IT to respond to this thread as they maybe totally against the idea - I wouldn't want to step on anyone's toes.

Hi Jeffncou,

I'm just exploring if crowd funding could generate the funds necessary to hire IT to develop plugins for some of those ideas that are in the back of all of our heads.

Jerry Kornbluth

in that case I'm all for it! Suggest the facebbok plugin would be a good place to start as a bit of interest has been generated already. Over on the thread you've linked to we've started outlining what we would each like it to do.

There was a system I came across some time ago, built into a support desk / forum.

Each "Member" has a limited number of votes - say 10.  Whenever they came across a wish list item in the forum that they liked, they could vote for it, with 1 or more of their votes.  But voting on one item, means that you have less votes left to vote on another item.  You may have used your votes on something - then a new and better something comes up, so you can remove your votes from items to allow you to vote on others.

This gives value to the votes, rather than just a 'like".  

I've always liked the idea of building on this... for instance, having votes purchased in the first place (this could then be used as a build budget), having votes expire after a certain period of time (to increase participation) etc.

Sorry - no.  I got iTools to build a similar thing for me on another site - but it's not public.