Another update: I've moved https://opencollective.com/perkeep back to being hosted by the Open Source non-profit ( https://opencollective.com/opensourcecollective) instead of me being the fiscal host.
That means I don't get the money to my bank account directly anymore, which is good (and easier on taxes, ugh). We were only doing that because I needed to pay Mathieu in Euros before and Open Collective's Open Source non-profit fiscal host couldn't do that. So at least this point we can let people do work & get paid out via PayPal or Stripe or whatever from the non-profit and I'm not in the path, except to click "approve" on expenses along with Mathieu & Paul Lindner. PayPal can do the currency conversion. Tiny bit more in fees, but better than me dealing with it. On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:08 AM Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Perkeep users, > > I just wanted to give you all an update on the state of Perkeep and my & > Mathieu's situations. > > Of Perkeep's nearly 9 year existence, I'd been paying Mathieu to work on > Perkeep full-time for the past 6 of those years. > > But that was always supposed to be a temporary situation that we just kept > doing out of habit. I can't afford to pay Mathieu what he's worth, though, > and we've agreed that he it'd be better for him to get a "real job" in the > industry where he can make normal industry money. It'd also cut down on my > expenses. > > As for me: my time has only become more scarce now that I have a kid. The > guilt of not working on Perkeep enough (but wanting to!) is what led me to > pay Mathieu in the first place. > > So, what to do now? > > I continue to use Perkeep myself and it's not going anywhere, but it does > require ongoing maintenance for some parts (updating to new Go versions, > updating to ever-changing APIs for the site importers) and I hope I or > others in the community (including Mathieu for fun) will be able to keep up > with that. > > But in lieu of anybody working on this a lot (full-time or hobby), I don't > expect major work to happen on Perkeep for a bit. > > We're very grateful for the 20 supporters and 5 organizations supporting > us financially on Open Collective (https://opencollective.com/perkeep/), > but at this point you should probably stop or at least pause your > donations, as I have nobody to send the money to. I'll be taking out what > remains for Mathieu's final payments. > > If anybody has questions, concerns, or suggestions, we're all ears. > > We're of course also grateful for all those have contributed their time & > code, and we hope you will continue to do so. I hope to continue hacking on > Perkeep myself as I find pockets of time. > > Life, yo. > > - Brad & Mathieu > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Perkeep" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
