[acqq]

Interesting:

“Grants/Bounties

If you have an idea for a new feature you would like to see implemented in Pengwin and can implement it yourself given the funding, we are now accepting grant/bounty proposals. Grants are currently available for $50-$500 USD based on complexity.”

The upper limit is quite demotivating, from my point of view.

[ghostly_s]

Demotivating to whom? I imagine the intent is to avoid creating an impression that anyone has the power to make their pet issue priority #1 for the dev team just by throwing enough money at it.

[acqq]

But it's not for a "dev team" at all, the way I understood it, it's:

"Learn how you can earn paid grants improving Pengwin."

"Your proposal will be promptly evaluated" ... "Your work sample and GitHub history will be evaluated to determine if you have the technical competancy to implement the proposed change and deliver timely." "If approved, you will recieve a simple agreement covering the scope of the work you will be doing which you must acknowledge and return and then you may commence work."

[pengwinhayden]

You are correct. This is for contributors to get paid to add features they want to see in the project. I wish we had more applications under the grant program.