Bounty County - Coding bounties for free and open source software projects.

Bounty for compiling Democracy Player on Windows with GNU tools

admin — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:34:30 +0000

From: Participatory Culture Foundation
Bounty: $500
Skills needed: Python, C++, Windows Build Environment Experience

Description: Participatory Culture Foundation is offering $500 to anyone who can get Democracy Player for Windows to compile using the GNU tools.

Democracy Player is based on Python and uses many Python extensions. Python extensions generally need to be compiled with the same compiler as Python. The official version of Python is compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2003. This isn’t likely to change. At one point, Microsoft was offering a no-cost command-line only version of this compiler called the “Visual C++ 2003 Toolkit.” This was hard to set up and use, but it at least gave volunteers a way to compile the program. However, since Visual Studio 2005 came out Visual Studio 2003 products are no longer available for retail sale and the toolkit compiler has been replaced by Visual C++ Express Edition 2005. It is illegal for us to distribute the VC++2003 toolkit. So, we’re forced to buy second hand copies of Visual C++ 2003 each time a new developer wants to work on Democracy for Windows.

We want to avoid these kinds of entanglements in the future, so we’re offering $500 to anyone who can come up with a clear, simple set of instructions to build Democracy for Windows using the GNU tools.

More Information: Here

Two new bounties from BlogMatrix

admin — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:44:36 +0000

From: David Janes
Organization / Company: BlogMatrix

First one:

Brief project description: Create a plug-in for the Universal Feed Parser to read the MovableType Export Format
Skills needed: Python, familiarity with the Universal Feed Parser
Total bounty ($) offered: 50
More information:
http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/:entry:blogmatrix-2006-06-19-0001/

Second one:

Project Name: Create a proper N3 serializer for rdflib
Brief project description: Improve RDFLib’s N3 serializer to make nicer looking output taking advantage of N3’s feature set
Skills needed: Python
Total bounty ($) offered: 100
More information:
http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/:entry:blogmatrix-2006-06-19-0003/

Apache mod_rewrite

admin — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:59:16 +0000

From: joh6nn

Description: From my end-user perspective, Apache’s mod_rewrite could stand a rewrite. I’d like to pay someone to make that happen. Mod_rewrite is an apache module written in C. You’d do well to have at least some experience with both.

Total bounty ($) offered: $500

For more info: https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/mod_rewrite

Mark Shuttleworth Bounties

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:41:56 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth is an African entrepreneur with a love of technology, innovation and space flight. In 2004, his operating budget for software development bounties was $100,000.

The following projects are all a part of Mark’s bounty program. For details on how to begin, contact Thomas Black, program manager for Open Source at The Shuttleworth Foundation, for more details.

More information about Ubuntu bounties
More information about SchoolTool bounties, an open source school administration system developed in Python
More information about Python Scripting bounties

For a detailed decscription of the bounty engagement process, please visit Mark’s bounty page.

Nintendo DS Wifi Bounty

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:24:36 +0000

The Nintendo DS WiFi Bounty is a project to generate freely available, license unencumbered internet connectivity libraries for the Nintendo DS, for use with a portable C or C compiler (primarily GCC.)

Bounty: $3,010.45 (and counting)

Success hinges around distributing source which can achieve TCP or UDP connections over IP to a wireless router through the NDS’ custom wireless networking hardware, as well as documentation for the hardware and a tiny demonstration application which verifies two-way communication with another TCP or UDP enabled device (presumably a PC.)

Programming skills: Portable C or C, the ability to develop embedded software, a familiarity with 802-group wireless technologies, and a familiarity with IP-based communications protocols.

Visit the DS Wifi Bounty site for more information

Cherokee Bounty - [ENGAGED]

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:38:29 +0000

Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.

Project: Traffic Shaping
Bounty: $500

Cherokee should be able to manage the server traffic based on some rules. This task requires the implementation of a subsystem with the following abilities:

Set the max download speed by connection
Set the max throughput of a virtual server
Set the max throughput of the whole server

Visit the Cherokee site for more information

Manu has taken on this bounty. Good luck, Manu!

Cherokee Bounty

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:30:35 +0000

Project: FastCGI support
Bounty: $700

There is work in progress to support FastCGI on Cherokee. With this task we want to ensure that Cherokee has excelent FastCGI support as soon as possible. It has to support:

Unix sockets and TCP sockets
Spawning new servers
Round Robin between servers
Some QA tests to ensure it works

Visit the Cherokee site for more information

If you take on this project, please let us know so we can update the listing.

Donationcoder.com Bounty [ENGAGED]

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:30:50 +0000

Donationcoder.com is running a programming contest to write an open source mod for the SMF forum system and they’re offering $100 and nore than $200 in software:

We’re looking to make 2 mods for the smf (simplemachines) forum system, that will let the mediawiki wiki system, and the mantis bugtracker system share smf login info.

The final result must be made open source and shared with the SMF community. We will be happy to provide web space for the programmer who writes this so that they can maintain a page on it (and for any other smf or open source mods they might want to write).

Familiarity with SMF forum, mantis, mediawiki will help (.php and MySQL)

Visit the Dreamcoder site for more information

Ardaen has engaged with this project. Good luck!

AROS Bounty

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:20:32 +0000

Team AROS is a grass roots support group for AROS, and has a number of open source bounties available for completion. The following project is worth $336:

Getting AROS run hosted on OS-X

Need OS-X enabled hardware, C skills and knowledge of AROS or AmigaOS coding.

Visit the Team AROS site for more information

GNOME Bounty - Mailer

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:23:10 +0000

GNOME has a number of open source bounties available for completion, ranging in difficulty and payout. The following Mailer project is worth $400:

Language selection in composer

Add a pop-up menu to the composer toolbar for selecting the language. This would affect the default spell-checking dictionary, the “On DATE, PERSON said:” attribution, the Content-Language header, and various other things.

Visit the GNOME site for more information

If you take on this project, please let us know so we can remove the listing.