On 26 July 2016 at 18:17, Richard Duivenvoorde <[email protected]> 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...
I'd love this! I spent a long time researching existing crowd funding platforms before launching the current campaign and just couldn't find one which was enterprise-friendly enough. When I ran the layer effects kickstarter I had a LOT of feedback from people who wanted to be able to donate but couldn't because of various reasons, like: - could not get approval to finance projects via Kickstarter - could not accept payments via paypal, direct donations, or other means - could not get approval from their organisation to "fund in advance" That's why in the end I decided just to run this all manually, and invoice pledgers directly when the campaign ends. Unfortunately the side effect of this approach is that it makes a lot more administrative work, which is why the minimum amount is required. I hate having to cut out the micro-donations (since they are very important!), but just couldn't find a way to meet the needs of both individuals doing micro donations and organisations wishing to contribute larger amounts. None of the hosted services do this, and I shied away from the self-hosted ones (even though some open source ones look quite attractive!) as I can't afford the time investment required to setup/maintain these. So in short... I'd love to have access to a more flexible crowd funding platform which is specifically tailored to funding open source software development! Nyall > > 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] of software to use. This [1] 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 _______________________________________________ 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
