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Last active December 20, 2018 16:27
Increase participation in and quality of FOSS projects with community currency
Quality of code, documentation and other aspects of FOSS projects can be improved by allowing
project owners to enable access to their code/documentation/tutorial material, etc. to only
such others, who also contribute to FOSS, or optionally other types of vlunteer projects.
How would it work:
A. For example, a Drupal programmer makes a module and records time it took him/her to do so.
The SYSTEM (more about this later) rewards every minute of the programmer's work with a set
number of units of "community currency" (for example 500 hours earns 500 units).
Others earn the same currency for their time by creating doccumentation, providing patches, etc...
B. The programmer publishes the code to drupal.org and indicates that the module is available
only to holders of community currency. There could be options like - pay what you want, but you