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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. Cofundos.org is focused specifically on open source software, but the team behind it has indicated that they plan to adapt the concept to other areas, including beyond software development.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After all, hourly consulting fees are typically much more costly than a “free lunch&# plus the travel time it took to meet up. Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. Yeah, but doesn’t the Open Source movement get funded?

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