Well, I'm happy to say that the first reverse bounty was a success: the securesite module is live on Drupal.org, and Drupal can now do Basic Auth tied to its user database. Add an SSL certificate and you've got secure RSS! Thanks again to Károly Négyesi for doing a great job in actually developing the module. If you like it, you can of course continue to donate -- I've transferred the project to Károly, who will be the module's maintainer.

The post I made on Drupal.org about the bounty generated some good discussion. In particular, there was back and forth over what this process/concept/whatever should actually be called. I like the suggestion of a Request for Funding, or RFF for short. So, here is my RFF of something I call portfolio.module.

Portfolio module enables a structured display of information that would be useful to any sort of profession that does project based work: architects, house builders, artists, students, consultants, web designers, etc.

The information associated with a portfolio node includes:

• Title: name of art, website, project, etc.
• Description: free form description
• URL: link to associated website (optional)
• Client: text field, client name; could also use HTML to link client name (optional)
• Teaser thumbnail: image shown in teaser view; generated from "main" image
• Zero or more associated images: one image is marked as "main"; a certain image size is displayed on full node view, and a second thumbnail size is displayed in teaser view; X additional images are displayed in full node view; might have a "screenshots" (or other label?) tab for viewing of all associated images

There are also some special views of portfolio nodes. You can read the full description on our dev wiki.

The donation page is again using Donorge.org. 5% of donations are funnelled to both Donorge.org and Drupal.org. I estimate that $1500 would be needed to do a really great job in implementing this module.

As I perhaps failed to mention the first time around, another incentive for donators is that they get their name and URL listed in the overview of the module on Drupal.org, which gets a lot of traffic. Hmmm...funding through Googlejuice!