[Vorbis] Bitrate Peeling (no. really)

[Christopher John Harrington]

That works for me. How, then, do I notify Xpih that I want my money to 
go to a specific place?

-Chris

Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:48:23AM +0200, Paul Wagland wrote:
> 
> 
>>OK, so it is on the Wiki, how do I say, here's 20USD on the way to this.
>>Especially since I don't want to give the money until there is a reason ;-)
> 
> 
> Well, we could have a page of 'people who promised to pay' but 
> personally I wouldn't find that especially motivating.
> 
> 
>>How do we "ensure" that people who "only say" that they will donate to the
>>cause, will donate to the cause. What I would really like to see is an 
>>escrow that has the following "fields"
> 
> 
> I think using the Xiph.org Foundation as the escrow agent makes the most 
> sense. Any service with an online interface is going to take a 
> significatnt cut for themselves, and the amounts are a probably too 
> small and from too many contributors for a traditional escrow agent to 
> make sense. That leaves some individual, or xiph.org itself. I'd rather 
> trust the foundation.
> 
> 
>>What is the money for?
>>Who can say whether or not this is done?
>>What timeframe is the pledge valid for?
>>What should happen with the money when the pledge expires?
> 
> 
> I'd suggest the following:
> 
> People can make donations to Xiph.org, but say they'd in particular like 
> to support one of (or any of) the bug bounties. We'd earmark the money 
> for the bounty fund and update the posted bounty. Award would be based 
> solely on the decision of the core xiph.org team.
> 
> The bounties can be disbanded by decision of the Xiph.org Foundation 
> board, at which point the money reverts to the foundation. If it's 
> important to a lot of people, we could refund the donations at this 
> time to those who so requested when they contributed; if we can't find 
> you the money reverts to the foundation. There should probably be a 
> minimum posting time, say 2 years, to reassure people the board won't 
> cut and run with the money. (Why we'd do that is beyond me. Xiph.org 
> exists to foster this work, and if we didn't believe these were 
> important task in support of our mandate, we wouldn't have posted 
> bounties for them!)
> 
>  -r
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