[mythtv] Paid for Plugin dev?

[Erich Nachbar]

Chris,

Thanks for your reply!

Whenever I talk to my Tivo friends they rave about its recommendation
service and with MythTV cutting out the commercials (love this feature!) I
feel that sometimes it is hard to know what interesting stuff is coming out.

My background is highly scalable web apps & distributed computing and I have
computed recommendations in the past, so I can take care of the backend-side
of things fairly quickly.

However I would need someone who is writing a plugin that would allow people
to interact with the system and to provide their activity stream to me, so I
can compute recommendations based on what similar people have watched.

I looked at the desired feature list and it seemed like something people are
looking for. So if there is interest, I can pull some more requirements,
wireframes together for the bidding process.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:

> * On Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 11:53:38PM -0700, Erich Nachbar wrote:
> > I have an idea for a plugin that I would pay the development costs for,
> > which of course would be opensourced.
> >
> > I'm not sure if these kinds of requests are acceptable, so please let me
> > know if this is inappropriate.
>
> No problems with it that I know of.  Several features in Myth have been
> added for 'bounties'.  You should probably mention what you're looking
> for so that interested parties could respond, then you could discuss $$
> with them privately.  Keep in mind that the people willing and able to
> do the work aren't going to do it for an insulting $$/hour rate.  I
> think the concensus is people would rather work on things that interest
> them for free rather than earning the equivalent of $5-10 an hour for
> a feature they are not interested in.
>
> All that being said, let us know what your idea is and you might find
> someone interested or maybe even better someone who has already had the
> same idea and started working on something or at least thinking about
> it.
>
> --
> Chris
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