On 07/06/2016 03:32 PM, Profpatsch wrote: > On 16-07-06 10:16pm, Roger Qiu wrote: >> I've been thinking about the mechanics of FOSS app stores. If you don't want >> to handle the payments, you need to implement a kind of >> payment-authentication, where the principle is the same as dealing with >> private packages. Instead the key being used is a key that is derived from a >> successful payment. > A friend of mine might be onto something there, but it’s probably > still too early to tell.
The short story is that we've been working on setting up a hybrid company that can "host" open source projects. Hybrid, in the sense that it will be able to both process donations (charitable, non-profit), as well as sales (commercial). The idea is to eventually scale to thousands of little projects, but at the beginning we're focusing on some bigger eggs. The idea is that you run your project, and we provide services to handle financial issues, with a web interface for teams. Donor and grants management, payroll, reimbursement, etc. Much like Software Freedom Conservancy but built for larger scale, and based in Europe. If this sounds interesting, we have some preliminary documentation online which I'm happy to share a link to off-list. Please do not publicly spread it just yet on mailing lists or Twitter or the like, but it's fine to pass along to other interested individuals. Moritz _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
