Paid Punbb modification/extension work

Like the idea. Think you should indeed proceed with such an extension to Puunbb.informer ! Build it and they will come

EDIT:

I would also recommend you put an official sticky topic list of

people who do

STYLES
MODS
EXTENSIONS
SMILIES
CODING

against payment

in that new extension you're talking about.

It's an interesting issue. If he plans on doing that he should tell you so from outset (honor codex?). But, you might need it for a client of yours  who in turn is paying you - so in some cases you might not mind if he publishes it after. Lots of ways of looking at it.

You'd never legaly be able to "get him" for it though. You could maybe have him banned from this forum in such a case where he agreed not to and then still did. But that leaves loads of doors open: posting in another name, posting from different IP etc etc. Posting in another forum altogether. Uncontrollable isn't it?

As a forum owner who would like extensions made (and supported), this is an excellent idea!

hmm, so when will this group start

I am reccommending this method not for extensions. I am recommending modifications and stuff to be done publicly, so that they are freely available. But this is for people who have rather unique needs. This would be stuff that is only needed on a one off client. A modification that could benefit others should be done freely.

And yeah I do have plans to keep on top of this. I am developing the system at the moment to handle this, however it will be done via External emails as the PM system at the moment doesn't have the required features, such as attachments and forwarding to emails. So this will mean I wont have compleate controll over it, however I will try to contact requesters and see how its getting on.

I think admins who run non profit sites, i.e. without adds should be using extensions for free. However extensions that are run on commercial (ad-financed) sites should remember that their site wouldn't be attracting revenue and users if it wasn't for people at PunBB (Devs) and Ext Devs.

So I think PunBB should actively encourage people who are making money to give back to the project (PunBB) and also not forget the ext devs (garciat, rich pedley, yonash, cereal etc).

Extensions are the most efficient way for a dev to fullfill needs of many users in easy way.

Also:

But who's going to judge what is needed one off? With so many PunBB running in so many countries the need is likely to be several places. You might not think you need something until you actually see it.

For me it seems like a no-brainer that extensions (& mods) are what drives users and admins using site.  So ext devs (PunBB or Independent) need to know that something's being done to promote them at least. Otherwise they loose interest. (My opinion)

Specific Example:
I have Pun_Attachment and would like to be able to have users upload either pictures (and then see them) or videoclips (the videoclips then playback via FLV Player extension). I'm sure many people not using PunBB currently would find something like that attractive. But if I have stuff like that programmed I don't really want to finance it on my own. I'm also confident that if 1000 people used it, at least 1-3% would be willing to donate 10-20$ for it. So that would be anything between 100-600$. Also possible that only 20 people used it, but were so keen they'd all pay 30$.
Just trying to say: Some kind of pooling should be added to this paid punbb work... Not only for the people looking to mod their site and not share the mod/extension.

Make sense?

Try and keep in mind that the more freely available extensions are the faster the community will increase. If there are loads of extensions around no one knows about it's a shame.

Or maybe one could add them to a list of 'paid' extensions (official, unofficial, paid).

That way people wanting a certain extension can see easily if there's something similiar around.

Also; if I've paid 200€/$/£ for dev of extension XYZ, if that dev sells a nearly unchanged version of it for 100 - shouldn't my price go down or I be compensated to a certain extent? That would ensure people who have the idea for the extension but can't do it themselves also have an incentive for helping grow extension use....

I think you should keep track of what is being sold/made Utchin. It's not in the interest of community otherwise. There's a way to get ext devs paid and give people buying specific ones a fair deal. http://www.ugg2u.net

But I guess that's incompatible with GPL licence (selling certain extensions over and over?)