Hi
> On 26 Jul 2016, at 10:51 AM, Neumann, Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 € - > 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 €200. 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. > > We are planning something exactly like this on projects. It will be a while before it is ready though. Regards Tim > 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 >> <http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html>] of software to use. >> This [1 <https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org>] 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 >> <http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html> >> [1] https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org >> <https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 — Tim Sutton Co-founder: Kartoza Project chair: QGIS.org Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source: Desktop GIS programming services Geospatial web development GIS Training Consulting Services Skype: timlinux IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
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