On 23 November 2016 at 05:32, andreas <bookoftrust@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

With freelancing and freelancing marketplaces being so popular, why not have a platform especially for Python related tasks and only limit the community to a job board ?

Such services already exist for the wider open source community (e.g. bountysource.com), and folks willing to advocate for and implement Python changes are free to sign up for those platforms if they want to do so. Anyone that chooses to do so is also free to start a task funding market specifically for the Python community and encourage both developers and end users to sign up. However, neither of those approaches requires the review and approval of the CPython core development team as a whole, so they're off-topic for this list (which is intended for discussion of language design ideas, rather than sustaining engineering funding models). The one aspect of contribution funding that's specific to core development is the page at https://docs.python.org/devguide/motivations.html, where core developers that *are* open to freelancing opportunities can state that, and provide links to other sites with the relevant details. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

On 23 November 2016 at 05:32, andreas <bookoftrust@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

With freelancing and freelancing marketplaces being so popular, why not have a platform especially for Python related tasks and only limit the community to a job board ?

Such services already exist for the wider open source community (e.g. bountysource.com), and folks willing to advocate for and implement Python changes are free to sign up for those platforms if they want to do so. Anyone that chooses to do so is also free to start a task funding market specifically for the Python community and encourage both developers and end users to sign up. However, neither of those approaches requires the review and approval of the CPython core development team as a whole, so they're off-topic for this list (which is intended for discussion of language design ideas, rather than sustaining engineering funding models). The one aspect of contribution funding that's specific to core development is the page at https://docs.python.org/devguide/motivations.html, where core developers that *are* open to freelancing opportunities can state that, and provide links to other sites with the relevant details. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia