On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Saturday 08 October 2011 Michael Grosser wrote: > > > > So why not get to the point and have dedicated donations for owncloud and > > let them be handled from kde? It even would be possible to let a > community > > member handle the flattr account and make a transaction to kde every few > > months. > > If a community member has the account it's a private account with all the > risks and problems. It might sound like theory, but what happens when the > community member doesn't care anymore, and doesn't reply to any requests? > The > money is missing and there is no way to get it. Stuff like this does > happen, > so I would avoid it. > It's easily avoidable. Just reach out to flattr. Or use a [email protected] mail and it can be redirected if someone isn't answering. > > > Then it would be legally alright (using KDE), ownCloud would still be > > supported from the common pool, but it would be a dedicated labeled > account > > for future changes and easy user recognizability. > > As I said, a dedicated account and dedicated donations can have some > issues. > So instead of going with something new like a flattr account, I would > recommend to just use the existing infrastructure and put something like > "if > you want to financially support ownCloud donate to KDE e.V." on the > ownCloud > web page and in the release announcement. We have Paypal donations buttons > we > can use for that, if you prefer a real button. > I thought the good thing about being open is the ability to use something new and I would really appreciate ownCloud being open and modern, so give the user at least the ability to not use paypal. I'm not saying we can't integrate a paypal button for kde on the contribution page, but I like the idea of flattr and I would love this account to be dedicated, even if it just is a dedicated account for dedicated labeling. > > -- > Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud >
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