drorco

Excellent timing, it's really hard to find film-makers around here.

Our startup CodersClan also funds open source projects although from a different angle. We Crowd-source the support for personal code problems (like a paid Stack Overflow) and we give a share back to the related Open Source projects.

http://www.codersclan.net/authors/

Hmm that's very interesting.

What kind of charity organizations you had in mind? OSI or others which are not related to coding?

In Experts-Exchange you pay for membership, not pay-per-answer. Actually their business model is quite awkward imo. If you answer enough questions, you don't need to pay which is a weird incentive for supporters imo.

And if it was costing a few tens of dollars, would it be reasonable?

Fixed. :)

Bounties provide a bigger incentive, however it doesn't always work. Do you think that if instead of 50 points of bounty it was replaced with $50, more people would be getting answers for these questions?

Depends on how bad I need your solution.

Another question, would you answer a question for money which otherwise you wouldn't have been answering?