I wanted to bring back this topic with a new point of view.
Instead of CP itself organizing this, we could at least make it something that works via an external service.
I don’t know any service that supports this, but, it would be cool to find something where:
- Random person A wants thing X to happen, starts a petition, and a petition gets approved as: “okay, this can be done”. Or, random person A sees a petition that was started by someone else in the past, and likes it.
- Random person A wants to use money to motivate the person who makes it happen.
- Random person A starts a “bounty” based on an existing approved petition, via an external service that supports this stuff.
- Once done, random person A will post the link of that external-service-bounty-task into the original petition in the forum. The petition can be tagged as “has-bounty”.
- From there on, more people B, C, D … can click that link and either: get it done, or add money to the bounty.
I say that this should be done via an external service because it’s somethig that needs to be professional, probably include some kind of escrow, allow a way to assign this to one person with a deadline, … Building this from scratch for CP would take ages (would not be done).
Also, an external service makes it more a “community” thing. It’s not CP paying you. It’s the community using external tools to motivate people.
This doesn’t even have to be approved. Why would I not, as a random person, be able to use a service to donate for people to make stuff happen?
So the real question is: do you know a suitable service for this?
An extreme solution would be to post it as a job on a freelancer platform. That’s probably too far, and it doesn’t allow more people to add money to the bounty.
Btw, this isn’t a petition anymore, since I’m proposing to use an external service and this doesn’t need approval. Can a moderator (@moderators) move this to general discussion?
UPDATE:
Potential good service: Bountysource (see FAQs)
Do you know any other?