Donating to Xfce through Bug Bounties

Hi everyone, Recently Eric and I have been setting up Xfce on bountysource.com[1] and we've finally reached a stage where I think we can go public. For a while the Xfce developer community was striving to establish a non-profit Foundation, a process that stalled for years mostly due to the bureaucratic nature of the enterprise. (In comparison, setting up the account on bountysource was a breeze.) To get to the point: we see bountysource[2] as an easy way to offer the community with a way to financially support Xfce. There are two avenues a backer can choose from. 1) Set a bounty on a specific bug (we've pulled in all the reports for many components already, so you can easily find them on bountysource.com) 2) Back the Xfce team The latter option means that the members of the Xfce team can decide on which bugs they want to spend the donated funds. Just to be clear, our main motivation is not to make money from contributing to Xfce, but to lure new contributors into hacking on Xfce. As development has slowed down a bit lately, Xfce definitely needs new maintainers and developers, especially as we focus on the bugs that are blocking a 4.12 release[3][4]. If you're a user and your favorite part of Xfce does not yet show up on bountysource [5], feel free to tell us! If you're a developer and haven't received an invitation email yet, accept my sincere apologies and get in touch! (I'm still in the process of sending them out by the way, but yeah, lack of free time as always and other distractions...) So, spread the word, back the project, and let's get people to contribute! Cheers Simon [1] https://www.bountysource.com/teams/xfce [2] https://www.bountysource.com/faq [3] http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.12/roadmap/critical-bugs [4] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2014-June/030772.html [5] https://www.bountysource.com/teams/xfce/projects