I do admit, we used to have something more easily visible on the front page about donations and a goal amount for the year. Maybe we can add something like that back to the download page where its out of the way and doesn't pop up or become annoying, but is obviously visible?
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 8:12 AM lis6502 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all > It's my first post to this list so i'd like to say 220 EHLO to everyone ;). > > Lately on Sabayon's Facebook Official Group i've found a thread > concerning donations. I don't know as other users, but i think that > power of distro resides in it's difference of others > Ubuntish-Debianish-Redhatish-spinoffs and in power of choice. > Sabayon for now differs in package format, polished look and feel (i am > saying as it can see regular user) and pretty much of things working OOTB. > > Even if-i-dont-know-how good distro would be, only small percent of > users will be willing to pay for anything. Keyword is money. People does > not like to pay for something that they can get free and use it without > limitations. On the other hand, limiting functionallity is not a good > idea either. > > What am i proposing is- following to Wikipedia's motto- to give back > what you took from usage. Every of us (even begginers) have it's own > workbench consisting of oneliners, simple automation tools, hints and so > on. > > Sabayon has it's wiki- would it be a problem to create additional page, > where anyone could post their precious tools? Community could vote > what's useful, comment on how to make something better (grep $WHAT > $WHERE instead of cat $WHERE | grep $WHAT). Weekly, monthly or otherwise > periodically one's idea could be packaged into official Sabayon repo. > Users would be developers and beta testers as well. > I personally have few ideas how to simplyfy other's lives as i > simplified mine ;) > > Adding an RSS feed to such "wiki page" could be a fastest way to start > testing and developing this /usr/local satellite software. Instead of > redirecting user to f.ex. Arch's wiki with comment that he need to > slightly modify syntax, we could post into ours wiki how to achieve same > goal in Sabayon way. > > WWYT? > > Best regards, lis6502 > >
