Hi Richard, It would be definitely useful to have a crowd-funding tool for all devs or even better, all OSGEO projects.
------------------ There are already existing crowd-funding platforms, but usually they keep a significant portion of the income. As an example, kickstarter keeps 5% of all income. If it is a larger project (say 30k), that would equal to 1500 EUR - enough to be significant and enough to implement other small stuff for QGIS. Nyall decided to do things completely manually without a crowd-funding platform, but to keep administration work low, avoid too small micro-donations - for this project he set the minimum amount to EUR200. For other bigger crowd-funding projects this may be a higher value. Maybe we can find a crowd-funding platform that only keeps 1-2 percent - which would be reasonable in my opinion. Often, there is an additional credit card or PayPal fee involved in addition. Andreas On 2016-07-26 10:17, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > After seeing Nyall cloudfunding campaign and finding out the minimal is > 200 dollar when I wanted to do a small donation for fun, I thought that > it would be cool if we as QGIS or OSGEO would have our own micro > crowdfunding platform... > > The idea is to make it easier for (core)-developers to launch such a > campaign.. > > First thing I thought is to make it part of 'projecta', maybe only > working with paypal or so? > > But then I thought it would also be a benefit for OSGEO/other projects > and googled this list [0 [1]] of software to use. This [1 [2]] is even > already a > django one... > > I was thinking also about the 'tagged/labeled'-donations of Ubuntu, > where IF you do a (small) donation you can 'label' it to a certain > 'piece of work'.... thinking about this... probably to much fuss/work to > administrate this... > > Just wanted to share this, but as always: just do it :-) > > Regards, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > > [0] http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html > [1] https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Links: ------ [1] http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html [2] https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org
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