sigmike
suggestion
allow project maintainer to use all the funds for guided development, out of github
Why? That defies the logic of peer4commit. Just raise bounties for that purpose I would say.
Ok, maybe I was too quick in my response. Had a night to think about it and maybe you are right and can we use the peer4commit infrastructure as a fundraiser. Given the issues with fundraising for a video it is worth a try. Can we re-open an issue?
Thanks Sigmike. As you might have seen, I've opened a fundraiser for the video on peer4commit as this is still the only way to do this transparently and somewhat organised. The key issue is that a rogue project maintainer might disappear with all the funds at once. So what do you think about to have a way to transferring the funds out of the project but into a designated wallet which can't be directly accessed by the project maintainer and is e.g. maintained by you or Fuzzy's escrow service. Only after request the funds can be transferred to another address provided by the project maintainer. E.g. the process might include a post in peercointalk and then 24h wait period. This way there are at least two people involved and suspicious behaviour emptying the fund without reason can be stopped. It might not be failsafe but at least it is something to start with until we have multiple signatures etc.
Too complicated? Anyone a better idea? I'm open to suggestions.
A rogue project maintainer can already disappear with all the funds. This option would only make it easier for him. So I think it's not a big issue.
What bothers me more is that (as you stated) it changes the way the funds are used, and I don't know whether the people who already donated to projects agrees with this change. On your project it makes sense (even if this project somehow defies the logic of peer4commit too). But I don't know for other projects.
Also I think we should be "community free". A project fully unrelated too peercoin should work here. So I'm not sure about involving peercoin community members.
But still, having a solution for that would be good. I don't know what would be a good solution.
