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Bounties:

relatively small promotional awards to be paid for programming work done to enhance Axiom.

Submissions will be accepted on an "as is" basis. It should be very clear whether a submission fulfils a specific requirement or not. A good example would be a MS Windows port of axiom: the requirements would be (roughly):

• that axiom can be compiled according to step by step instructions
• passes "most" of the tests -- there might be some platform specific problems, of course, like pathnames and the like
• and the changes are documented.

Similarly, a bounty could be awarded for an SBCL port, when Axiom actually compiles in this environment.

Special awards will be granted for especially good work.

In fact, there are quite a few tasks where a simple operational result would already be great: pamphlet support on MathAction?, a Windows port, an SBCL or CMUCL port, compiling domains with Aldor, etc.

The individual items from the OldWishList? and [Summer Of Code]? are possible items for awards.

Here the current proposals:

Note that we really have no idea how much work these items represent although you can be sure that their value to users of Axiom is far beyond 200$. That is why we refer to a bounty as an "award" and not as a payment for work accomplished.

Sidenote: Many great mathematicians set out prices for proofs of conjectures they had. Best known are probably the prices of Paul Erdös. These prices ranged from 10$ (difficult problem) to (I think) 500$ (only for genius)...

In this spirit, we might set up a second row of bounties, like:

This is based on an email from Martin Rubey in november 2004, and is subject to change without notice.