A reward mark in the tickets means that if you like, you can collaborate with some specific things in exchange of money, I think that is a good way to promote that make money with free software doesn't come from the hell ​like some users may think, also, what do you think that the money obtained with the stable version of Elive is for ?

There's an important things to know before to proceed with a reward job:

• All the payments will be made with paypal, so you must have a paypal account that is able to receive payments (some country's doesn't allow that)
• The code (or the job requested) needs to be minimaly clean, stable, and correct, if the code is ugly made, buggy-prone, or using crappy methods, will be not accepted
• If you are worried about if your code will be accepted or not (so if you will be payed for do this kind of job) you must contact the main developer to make any question that you may have, we are not extremely strict about the code quality but if you are an Elive user then you must understand that Elive requires some minimaly quality things :)
• Documented: comments doesn't hurt anybody, you should put comments in your code in order to know what does where and how, basically, in your functions in order to know what does every function (and values passed, returned, etc) and in any part of the code that will look a bit complex with something simple to understand like trying to obtain the foo environment variable by generating a fake state of bar...

You can talk/comment directly on the ticket, that's the tickets for :), if you don't have an account to this site you can request it to ​http://www.elivecd.org/Help/Collaborate , if you have any question or problem, contact Thanatermesis