WiiLi:Bounty

From WiiLi

[edit] A draft, Wii Linux bounty

• WiiLi.org starts the bounty with $499, taken from the original donations made to the site to get the dedicated server. When we hit our visitor number 1.000.000 on our frontpage.
• The Money goes to and is controlled by the people from distrowatch.org, or another well know person/site. osnews? , slashdot?
• We can setup a chip-in (created by distrowatch.org?) so that people interested in contributing chip-in to the bounty.
• Also The chip-in mechanism allows for other people to include the chip-in on their sites:
• Distrowatch decides on the winner and sends the money.
• No time limit, the fund will keep increasing until the goal is achieved.
• Is very important to notice that Paypal and ChipIn charge a fee for the transactions.

Who gets the money?

The first person to:

• Boot Linux on the Nintendo Wii without voiding the Nintendo Wii warranty.
  • Using attached hardware on USB, etc, is fine, as long it is documented what it does and where to obtain/build it.
  • X needs to run.
  • Wiimote, keyboard, mouse, dvd drive, sd-card and network support.
  • Documentation of the code execution technique on the Wiili.org wiki.
  • Any files used to do it must be provided.
  • Youtube video and how-to.
    • Needs to show the full av cable during the whole video to make sure it is for real
    • No cutting out parts of the video

Just an idea, feel free to contribute.

• Keep this away from Digg or alike until we have a more precise idea of how to make this work.
• We should have a more detailed papers before we reach the 1.000.000 visitors on the index page. Also at that point the $499 contribution will be made.
• Once the idea is clear and we have some one outside wiili.org receiving and taking care of the money we can start telling everyone about the bounty.
• It's not an easy task, the bounty will reach the thousands of dollars.

[edit] Some thoughts from a Mac user:

Some of you may be familiar with a similar contest for the first booting of Windows on Macintosh Intel based hardware. From an initial $1000 dollars offered, the pool rose to $14,000,000 before it was won. This may seem like a good thing, however, some issues arose. Everyone was so focused on winning the money, that instead of cooperating in true open source community fashion, everyone was scrambling to make their own personal solution, keeping it all closed in order to win the prize. Open source software has its basis in freedom, free from both commercial restrictions, and dedicated to open, community effort. Placing a prize on this may seem like it will inspire more efforts from people who weren't interested in the project, but it may just create more problems than it's worth.

• Want to include the chip-in widget on your website the code is:

<object width="125" height="125"><param name="movie"
value="http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/fc5c743fe9502fb5"></param><param name="wmode"
value="transparent"></param><param name="color_scheme" value="blue"></param>
<embed allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/fc5c743fe9502fb5"
flashVars="color_scheme=blue" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="125"
height="125"></embed></object>