Hi I'm not really well informed about all available crowdfunding platforms, btw did youevaluate "goteo"?:
https://en.goteo.org/ it is a a platfomr similar to kickstarter, but oriented to Commons and foss based. cheers Luigi Pirelli ************************************************************************************************** * Boundless QGIS Support/Development: lpirelli AT boundlessgeo DOT com * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir * Mastering QGIS: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis ************************************************************************************************** On 26 July 2016 at 11:40, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
