Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment

Re:Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment by nartz on Friday November 06, 2015 @06:23PM (#10522717)

Instead, the learning point here maybe is that, if you spend the time to spec something out properly, and make it into a nice little package, and say its for the good of the government and community, maybe you can get some altrustic programmers to help out, if you give them sufficient credit.

Maybe instead you should think about how to better create a list of timeboxed /scopedtasks that any programmer can come and submit a PR for, and how to better reward those people with fame or other perks

- Leaderboard of contributors, # of prs, dollars saved taxpayers?

- Let users link to their contributions / put in resume?

- personal letter from the mayor once you submit 3 successful PRs that are accepted?

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Re:Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment by jdiez17 on Friday November 06, 2015 @07:49PM (#10523034)

I'm not sure if your comment is sarcastic or not, but it actually wouldn't be a bad idea. Working on a well defined, self-contained task in an open source project can be very rewarding in itself.

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Re:Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment by nartz on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:37PM (#10535647)

not sarcastic at all.

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Re:Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment by something123 on Friday November 06, 2015 @10:27PM (#10523542)

gamification of altruism

Has a dirty feeling to it, but I don't see why it can't work =)

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Re:Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment by Pyxl101 on Saturday November 07, 2015 @03:03AM (#10524123)

Encouragement to work in the US Digital Service is altruism along similar lines.

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