I’m not that good of a programmer or anything, but… how useful would a beginner-ish level Python person be for these purposes, or would I need to basically seriously level up before being useful in that capacity?
Next, I’m not sure how involved this would be, but if it’s simple enough, one idea might be to have a wiki stub automatically generated for each post in LW, and the LW post automatically being linked to the (initially blank) wiki page for it.
Also, is it just your posts that will be imported to LW? Why not, well, the whole of OB (assuming none of the other authors (primarily Robin Hanson, presumably) object?
As far as the last bit of volunteering, I may be willing to help out a bit, but right now my self evaluation would be “no way I could do the full load… yet. But maybe some.” ie, if you can’t find any single person to do the whole thing, maybe it can be split up among a bunch of us that might each do a fraction of it?
Actually, for stuff that is part of larger sequences, may also be good to, say, assign a volunteer to each of the sequences? I think I’d be willing to take on the QM sequence, for instance.
I’m not that good of a programmer or anything, but… how useful would a beginner-ish level Python person be for these purposes, or would I need to basically seriously level up before being useful in that capacity?
Just to avoid us becoming lawyers in soup kitchens, does anyone know offhand how much it would cost to hire a python programmer?
Good question. Only reason I hinted at me helping out there was that there seemed to be a sufficient lack of offers that such help was still being begged for.
Hrm… from some initial googling, looks like average salaries for Python programmers is in the range of 60k to 80k USD. From what I gather, the needs of this site would be more toward the lower end.
Definitely. Looking at the ToDo list, I think LW could get away with a few bounties, if they were publicized widely enough. (Maybe only a few thousand or even hundred dollars.) If the codebase isn’t too bad, the tasks too onerous, or the language too unpleasant, FLOSS programmers don’t ask too much.
So.… is this the point at which we begin passing the hat among members? Should we attempt to determine as a community what we want the bounty to be for each task, or should we just establish the bounties and have their values go up as individual members pledge money to those they consider most important?
The second method is a method to “determine as a community what we want the bounty to be for each task”, and it’s more likely to produce good results than having a discussion and then someone announcing what the community has decided. However, pledging may not be the right solution, because people may doubt that enough people will honor their pledges. Perhaps actually donating, with the donations returned in X months or years if the task isn’t completed by someone by then?
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I’m not that good of a programmer or anything, but… how useful would a beginner-ish level Python person be for these purposes, or would I need to basically seriously level up before being useful in that capacity?
Next, I’m not sure how involved this would be, but if it’s simple enough, one idea might be to have a wiki stub automatically generated for each post in LW, and the LW post automatically being linked to the (initially blank) wiki page for it.
Also, is it just your posts that will be imported to LW? Why not, well, the whole of OB (assuming none of the other authors (primarily Robin Hanson, presumably) object?
As far as the last bit of volunteering, I may be willing to help out a bit, but right now my self evaluation would be “no way I could do the full load… yet. But maybe some.” ie, if you can’t find any single person to do the whole thing, maybe it can be split up among a bunch of us that might each do a fraction of it?
Actually, for stuff that is part of larger sequences, may also be good to, say, assign a volunteer to each of the sequences? I think I’d be willing to take on the QM sequence, for instance.
Just to avoid us becoming lawyers in soup kitchens, does anyone know offhand how much it would cost to hire a python programmer?
Good question. Only reason I hinted at me helping out there was that there seemed to be a sufficient lack of offers that such help was still being begged for.
Hrm… from some initial googling, looks like average salaries for Python programmers is in the range of 60k to 80k USD. From what I gather, the needs of this site would be more toward the lower end.
Definitely. Looking at the ToDo list, I think LW could get away with a few bounties, if they were publicized widely enough. (Maybe only a few thousand or even hundred dollars.) If the codebase isn’t too bad, the tasks too onerous, or the language too unpleasant, FLOSS programmers don’t ask too much.
So.… is this the point at which we begin passing the hat among members? Should we attempt to determine as a community what we want the bounty to be for each task, or should we just establish the bounties and have their values go up as individual members pledge money to those they consider most important?
The second method is a method to “determine as a community what we want the bounty to be for each task”, and it’s more likely to produce good results than having a discussion and then someone announcing what the community has decided. However, pledging may not be the right solution, because people may doubt that enough people will honor their pledges. Perhaps actually donating, with the donations returned in X months or years if the task isn’t completed by someone by then?
Fundable is a good solution to raise a set amount of money while not putting anyone on the line for the failure of others to follow through.
I know there a number of service precisely for carrying out assurance contracts like these; do you have any particular one to recommend?
Nope; never used one.