.. using the
info on this linked page
https://www.spi-inc.org/donations/
Thanks in advance for your time & reply
Best Regards
Peter Valentin
Hi Peter,
Am 03.04.24 um 15:09 schrieb Peter Valentin:
I'd like to continue to support you
BUT I do NOT want to continue to support Paypal !
@ https://www.debian.org/donations.en.html
one is mislead to assume it is possible to donate withOUT using Paypal
if one goes via »Click & Pledge«
BUT
Hiya
I'd like to continue to support you
BUT I do NOT want to continue to support Paypal !
@ https://www.debian.org/donations.en.html
one is mislead to assume it is possible to donate withOUT using Paypal
if one goes via »Click & Pledge«
BUT »Click & Pledge« is done via Paypal - in a
Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes:
> I consider Bitcoin to still be far less repulsive than both the
> mainstream banking system and para-banks like Paypal.
Likewise, I think Bitcoin is – while not perfect by any stretch – at
least as worthwhile as PayPal for donations to
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>> And why would you refuse a way to submit donations that's
>> convenient for some donors?
Ben> [...]
Ben> Mozilla tried it and the result was a net negative:
Ben>
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 16:15 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 01:33:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Elise Wood writes ("Bitcoin donations"):
> > > Have you considered adding an address for bitcoin donations? Would you?
> >
> &
* Adam Borowski:
> I consider Bitcoin to still be far less repulsive than both the mainstream
> banking system and para-banks like Paypal.
Many countries have a long tradition of banking cooperatives, which
could provide a third option.
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 01:33:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Elise Wood writes ("Bitcoin donations"):
> > Have you considered adding an address for bitcoin donations? Would you?
>
> After reading _Attack of the 50-foot blockchain_ by David Gerard, my
> (previo
Elise Wood writes ("Bitcoin donations"):
> Have you considered adding an address for bitcoin donations? Would you?
After reading _Attack of the 50-foot blockchain_ by David Gerard, my
(previously merely rather sceptical) attitude to Bitcoin has
hardenened.
IMO Debian should
Have you considered adding an address for bitcoin donations? Would you?
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 01:32:14PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> "Yao Wei (魏銘廷)" wrote:
> > As OCF is now a trusted organization in Debian [1], I'd like to ask if it is
> > okay for OCF to receive donations on behalf of Debian Project [2]. And, if
> > so,
> > h
"Yao Wei (魏銘廷)" wrote:
> As OCF is now a trusted organization in Debian [1], I'd like to ask if it is
> okay for OCF to receive donations on behalf of Debian Project [2]. And, if
> so,
> how to donate and specify the donation for Debian Project. The monthly
> program
&
Hi,
As OCF is now a trusted organization in Debian [1], I'd like to ask if it is
okay for OCF to receive donations on behalf of Debian Project [2]. And, if so,
how to donate and specify the donation for Debian Project. The monthly program
(300壯士) [3] doesn't have a place for specifying
also sprach Paul Wise p...@debian.org [2015-03-16 12:52 +0100]:
Re financial donations, I'd personally like to see more focus on
something like having 20k or more individuals donating $10 a year
and most of them listed on contributors.d.o, as opposed to turning
Debian into more
by the web team.
There is also the DSA wishlist but half of it is obsolete since zack
created sources.d.n.
https://dsa.debian.org/hardware-wishlist/
Looking at my hardware-donations@d.o archive, we've been offered
mostly hardware that we can't use for one reason or another; out of
warranty, too
. The pending partners inquiries are all of
that nature.
Well, this is indeed a very hard subject, and also includes hardware
donations.
There's the easy case, which is when Debian needs something and then
there's demand and presumably a market price (hardware donations and
hosting).
If Debian had
My name is Anthony Hunter and I'm inquiring as to who is the best contact
to discuss about your donations program?
Thank You,
Anthony
ZipfWorks http://www.zipfworks.com
*Business Development Director*
1601 Cloverfield Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-429-9033
Hi Anthony,
On 08/01/15 at 15:51 -0800, Anthony Hunter wrote:
My name is Anthony Hunter and I'm inquiring as to who is the best contact
to discuss about your donations program?
If you are interested in hardware donations, please see
https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Wanted and contact
hardware
to donate to Debian.
2) We don't plan to keep significant funds stored in Paypal.
3) Every Trusted Organization that Debian works with either currently accepts
Paypal, or plans to.
4) Paypal does not require the use of any non-DFSG compliant software,
including Javascript to make donations
donations
via PayPal the main argument against was a possibility of having PayPal
freeze the account which accepts funds, upon any suspicious activity.
I hope that you guys mitigated this possible problem (e.g. via some
intermediate account destined solely to channel paypal money)?
We transfer from
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Brian Gupta wrote:
As someone who's pretty heavily involved in fundraising for Debian, I'd like
to
express my support for adding Paypal to the list of official methods to donate
to Debian.
And if I can add a data point, PayPal is already mentioned on the donation
page
compliant software,
including Javascript to make donations. Because of this, most of our
peer Free Software organization accept Paypal.
5) Accepting Paypal does not preclude us from exploring other, new,
payment processing systems, as long as they allow us to integrate
with them without using non-DFSG
).
Now, given that you want to express disagreement about my decision, I
think that you should explain why _you_ think that:
(1) Debian should not list paypal;
(2) This is a serious enough issue to override auditors, who are normally
in charge of managing how Debian receives donations;
(3) What
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@
without making it clear that you did that (by forwarding it instead of
bouncing it, for example).
FTR, I was the one who bounced the message, not David.
--
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On 17/11/14 at 16:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@
without making it clear that you did that (by forwarding it instead of
bouncing it, for example).
FTR, I was the
On 17/11/2014 10:15, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
On 17/11/14 at 16:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@
without making it clear that you did that (by forwarding it instead of
the website IMHO.
I was asked to look into the question of whether (and how) we should
list Paypal on https://www.debian.org/donations.
I've gone through various discussions about Paypal, including the one on
debconf-team
(http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20141010.131258.9c56bd7d.en.html).
I
(resending to -www@, #681501 is now archived)
Hi,
I was asked to look into the question of whether (and how) we should
list Paypal on https://www.debian.org/donations.
I've gone through various discussions about Paypal, including the one on
debconf-team
(http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message
I want to how I can donate Dabian Proyect per paypal..., please...
Thanks,
Gisi
Hi,
Per http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/, PayPal donations may be made through
Network For Good:
https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=11-3390208
Thanks!
Luca
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:39:51PM +0100, Gisela Neira wrote:
I want to how I can donate Dabian
Lars Wirzenius writes (Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations
(was: PaySwarm-based donations)):
I do, however, want to repeat my point that this kind of thing is likely
to be quite divisive even outside one distro. Donations from end-users
are highly likely to go mainly to highly
On Mi, 19 iun 13, 10:33:42, MJ Ray wrote:
I would prefer a simpler listing of which developers are available for
hire and which projects they are interested in working on. If that
could be presented in the PTS, package managers or reportbug, that
would be great. Would anyone block such
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:55:11PM -0400, Manu Sporny wrote:
This is a highly re-worked proposal for performing upstream donations
and donations to the Debian project. Major changes include:
* Debian developers are not allowed to receive any direct monetary
contribution or change
donations of code that were made (even as this VERY thread was
going on mind you!), here's proof that
I contributed documentation while this thread was going on too:
https://github.com/venturecommunism/meteor-crowdfunder
And I didn't even dismantle it or make it harder to use intentionally to
protect
that?
- Original Message -
From: Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi
To: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations (was:
PaySwarm-based donations)
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:55:11PM -0400, Manu Sporny wrote
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:53:42AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
Donations from end-users are highly likely to go mainly to highly
visible projects, such as Firefox/Iceweasel and LibreOffice.
But doesn't this problem already exist with the status quo?
Let's assume that Firefox, LibreOffice, FSF
that.
- Original Message -
From: Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org
To: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations (was:
PaySwarm-based donations)
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:53:42AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no
Money is a very undemocratic resource, and I believe that tipping (which
is what I consider small donations based on work done by an individual
to a single package is) is denigrating and a blight upon the world.
tfheen is not alone. This podcast suggests
to open source the business
models.
- Original Message -
From: MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop
To: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no
Money is a very undemocratic resource, and I
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
More seriously, you really can't understate how much the project felt
generally burned by the huge Dunc-Tank controversy. I was one of the
people who thought it was a decent idea at the time, but the outcome was
far more disruptive than I think it was worth. I
://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general/
how one can help would be useful - I think I'll suggest adding donations
of work to its donations page, too!
If accounting for $0.02 of movements takes one person, then accounting
for $113+K might take 5650+... but I know it would be easier than that ;)
Oh
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote:
I do, however, want to repeat my point that this kind of thing is likely
to be quite divisive even outside one distro. Donations from end-users
are highly likely to go mainly to highly visible projects, such as
Firefox
at this donations proposal but as a deep failure
waiting to happen.
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:35:36PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Sorry, I cannot look at this donations proposal but as a deep failure
waiting to happen.
While I am warry, I don't think we should mock or block those wishing to
build this system to help aid Debian.
Cheers,
Paul
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:38:08PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:35:36PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Sorry, I cannot look at this donations proposal but as a deep failure
waiting to happen.
While I am warry, I don't think we should mock or block those wishing to
build
I'd like to apologize.
SPI with all its manpower was a poor attempt at irony. Elsewhere I've tried
to emphasize that I respect and
honor the work people have done on the accounting side intaking donations etc
and generally doing the things people rarely want to
do in a FOSS project
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 01:38:08 PM Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:35:36PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Sorry, I cannot look at this donations proposal but as a deep failure
waiting to happen.
While I am warry, I don't think we should mock or block those wishing
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:45:49PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
Personally, economic incentives have very little to do with why I work on
Debian. Fundamentally, if I was here for the money, Debian couldn't afford
me.
Ditto, that's not the issue here - this wouldn't be funding
On Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2013, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
While I am warry, I don't think we should mock or block those wishing to
build this system to help aid Debian.
While I agree that we should not mock those, I absolutly do think we should
block those
Once motivation is destroyed, it's
Venture Communism venturecommun...@yahoo.com writes:
So let's get this straight.
Step 1) Ask APT people if it belongs in APT
Get told to go to debian-project list
Step 2) Ask debian-project list if can put in APT
Get told doesn't belong in APT
Step 3) Fix proposal so it's not in APT,
. You can find them in the
thread elsewhere if desired.
I am very concerned about motivations of Debian project volunteers being
distorted by money so I would suggest only allowing donations to
I wanted to point out that social relations are distorted by the fact that
capitalism is a class
in the
thread elsewhere if desired. I wanted to invite others to play along by sharing
and commenting on a variety of quotes from the whole thread.
But before that I wanted to draw attention to what happens when you have only
one intake point for donations, no information technology in the field
17, 2013 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
site requesting user's charity
You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited
On Tue, June 18, 2013 04:31, Martin Owens wrote:
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
site requesting user's charity
You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited to
participate in Debian. Debian isn't elitist and it shouldn't care that
the tool being
]] Manu Sporny
On 06/16/2013 06:26 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
OTOH, I think it would be fine to have something at the package level
to pass on donations to our upstreams, as well as to ease donating to
the Debian project as a whole. See [1,2], already mentioned by Paul
Wise in his
Hi,
I didnt want to participate in this thread anymore (all has been said) but then
I found this new study linked below by chance and found it matching this thread
too well...
On Dienstag, 18. Juni 2013, Brian Gupta wrote:
What do you think of this recent University Study?
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 22:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
If that's what an upstream is after, they should pick a different
software license;
Non-Commercial terms are non-free. If they want to exclude commercial
distribution they should not be involved in Free Software.
Free as in Freedom, the
a programmer to get involved on your
behalf, then you are involved. If you are given no opportunity to become
involved then what's the difference?
I have to ask: are you advocating for the Debian project to support
and/or solicit donations, or are you advocating for us to support
PaySwarm, whatever
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 14:25 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
and I'd be willing to accept that we may need to improve
Yes.
FYI Not my new toy. I'm not affiliated with and have no relation to
payswarm. The technical mechanism isn't as important as the social ones.
M
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Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 22:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
If that's what an upstream is after, they should pick a different
software license;
Non-Commercial terms are non-free. If they want to exclude commercial
distribution they should not be involved
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
Some of us (myself definitely included) are involved in free software
precisely *because* we're strongly anti-capitalist, anti-marketing, and
firmly opposed to the economic structures that dominate so much of the
rest of life. If your plea is for
Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes:
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
Some of us (myself definitely included) are involved in free software
precisely *because* we're strongly anti-capitalist, anti-marketing, and
firmly opposed to the economic structures that dominate so much of the
This is a highly re-worked proposal for performing upstream donations
and donations to the Debian project. Major changes include:
* Debian developers are not allowed to receive any direct monetary
contribution or change the upstream DONATE file in any way.
* The solution isn't specific to apt
betting the vast majority of upstreams in Debian will
have no donation info present and or no way to donate to them. Have
you done any survey of this on hosting sites where there are standard
ways to setup donations - like on sourceforge?
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list
- Original Message -
From: Paul Wise p...@debian.org
To: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations (was:
PaySwarm-based donations)
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Manu Sporny wrote
you to approach the FSF and ask them about this.
Not only are they one of our more prominent upstreams (particularly among
the ones who do have a clear way to take donations and a clear set of
practices for how they use those donations), but they're also likely to
have opinions on both the legal
Venture Communism venturecommun...@yahoo.com writes:
So let's get this straight.
Step 1) Ask APT people if it belongs in APT
Get told to go to debian-project list
Step 2) Ask debian-project list if can put in APT
Get told doesn't belong in APT
Step 3) Fix proposal so it's not in APT,
Le Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:55:11PM -0400, Manu Sporny a écrit :
This is a highly re-worked proposal for performing upstream donations
and donations to the Debian project. Major changes include:
* Debian developers are not allowed to receive any direct monetary
contribution or change
Le Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:20:47PM -0400, Manu Sporny a écrit :
The files are composed together to suggest where donations should go to
the sender. They are composed in this order:
1. Upstream project's DONATE file.
2. Package maintainers DONATE file.
3. System's DONATE file.
So, when
it is done.
If maintainer $foo wants to put a donations link (as some have done,
for example, using Tumblr), she can do it. If a user wants to donate
to the project, he can do it as it is now. If another user wants to
donate to the maintainer of a specific package, he can also do it by
contacting pkgname
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
site requesting user's charity
You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited to
participate in Debian. Debian isn't elitist and it shouldn't care that
the tool being deployed is money rather than time.
Your argument invites
seen in the project.
Right now, we have a (sometimes uneasy) compromise in which those who do
not feel that way about money can pursue donations privately or seek out
funding models that align with their view of the free software world, and
the project does not condemn, endorse, or comment on those
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
site requesting user's charity
You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited to
participate in Debian. Debian isn't elitist and it shouldn't care
being deployed is money rather than time.
But donations are a gift, not a tool. You can't choose what the
recipient does with a donation, and I doubt there are many donors
willing to pay a few hundred £/$/€ per day for a DD or DM to work on
whatever the developer thinks needs doing. (I could
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
They are not the same thing at all. The social effects
are almost completely different.
It's not a false equivalence. Participation is not just about being a
programmer, if you can convince a programmer to get involved on your
behalf, then
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 04:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
Many DDs and DMs work as consultants or contractors. If a user wants
to use their money as a tool for Debian development, they should hire
one or more of these developers to work on the specific things the
user is interested in.
Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes:
The case was stated, it wasn't made.
Then we'll agree to disagree. But I'll point out that the status quo is
to not do this. I believe the onus is on you and others who agree with
you to be convincing, not for me to convince you.
It's that social
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 21:18 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
how Debian is in the way
Debian takes code from websites with donation buttons, economic
incentive options, kickstarter updates, support contracts, developer
sponsorships, programs and projects of all kinds and general invitations
to
not be the case for distributions
that are explicitly targetting and marketing to a mass audience, but
that's not Debian's niche.
Also, I'll say that, as a free software *user*, this is what I expect from
free software. I don't expect to be badgered for donations, nor do I
expect my relationship with free
On Sb, 15 iun 13, 21:38:24, Manu Sporny wrote:
Yes, we probably don't want to create a Mos Eisley in Debian. However,
knowing that you can go somewhere to hire Debian developers to fix
issues that you're having with the system would be very helpful for
companies (like ours and the ones we
On Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, Manu Sporny wrote:
Thanks to everyone that has participated in the discussion thus far. :)
I think there have been a number of solid concerns and issues raised,
which I'm going to try and wrap into a proposal below.
and then you continue to ignore these concerns and
Manu Sporny mspo...@digitalbazaar.com writes:
...
With respect to Debian-packaged software, if we address both issues,
the benefit is that more resources can be directed toward Free
Software development.
That is an assumption that I happen to think is completely unfounded.
IBM tested various
the donations goal by framing it in the
following way:
Ultimately, where to send a donation is the decision of the person or
organization doing the donation (the benefactor).
Package maintainers, software developers, and project organizations can
lobby for where they'd like to see the money go
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:05:48AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
You suggest that package maintainers get to suggest where donations go.
There's two glaring problems there. First, it disregards all the great
things people do to make Debian better that are _not_ about packaging
at all.
Yeah, I
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 09:47 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
The idea that it's currently impossible to fund Free Software is
nonsense. See IBM, HP, Canonical, my customers, anyone that's ever
said to a DD (or anyone else for that matter): I'll buy you a beer if
you help me package this...
The
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 13:25 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
If you're seriously attempting to equate I'll buy you a beer if you
help me with corrupt bribery, then I suspect the net effect is
going to be that people stop reading the rest of your argument.
It's not serious, it's absurdism. A
* Manu Sporny:
As an aside, PaySwarm is currency agnostic. The commercial
implementation of it (Meritora) deals with USD today, has plans for Euro
(and a few other national currencies) within a year, and Bitcoin shortly
after that.
For the Euro, we already have the SEPA system, which is very
On 06/16/2013 04:16 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, Manu Sporny wrote:
Thanks to everyone that has participated in the discussion thus
far. :) I think there have been a number of solid concerns and
issues raised, which I'm going to try and wrap into a proposal
below.
visible projects, regardless of
the effort required to package them, while people working on vital
but largely invisible infrastructure will get nothing much -- how
good is that going to be for the project?
Did you see the proposal to just send all donations to the Debian
project (or appropriate
On 06/16/2013 05:05 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
You suggest that package maintainers get to suggest where donations
go. There's two glaring problems there.
What about making it impossible for the package maintainers to have any
say on where the money goes, then? What if it is solely up
On 06/16/2013 06:26 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
OTOH, I think it would be fine to have something at the package level
to pass on donations to our upstreams, as well as to ease donating to
the Debian project as a whole. See [1,2], already mentioned by Paul
Wise in his initial followup
Le Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:25:26AM -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
Charles Plessy wrote:
In the case of Debian, I share with others the concern of having the
packages
as a source of revenue
How about making fixed bugs a source of revenue?
I do not see how to fit this in the PaySwarm model
to developers. I don't want to see money persons
join Debian and I dont want see people leave Debian because of it. I also dont
want to see people fight over money. (Hey, I must maintain this software
because I deserve the money users pay for it.)
Donations to Debian OTOH, which benefit all
On Samstag, 15. Juni 2013, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
I agree. It would add a whole new dimension to NMU'ing, orphaning,
adopting, and salvaging packages with a large user base. For example,
currently most people would probably happily accept co-maintainers even
if they're confident that they could
be
a way for people to communicate that a) they welcome donations, and b)
where these donations should go to.
Every maintainer in Debian can, for themselves, decide whether that
metadata should signal that they accept donations, and if so where these
donations should go. The project as a whole would
On 14-06-13 23:24, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
Right, but this leads to one of two things:
- No money is shared with dependencies (leading to people flocking to
awesomewm, gnome, kde, chrome, wine, apache2, etc)
- Money is shared with dependencies (leading to people flocking to
* Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org, 2013-06-15, 11:48:
What happens with the money should be decided by the maintainers of the
package. Before you'll see flocking, there will have been such a
decision already (otherwise there's no money and thus no flocking).
Given that, I can see only a few
expect people to be interested in joining purely for financial
benefit.
This would be a nice result of this system. Very very nice. I would love
if donations for a package went to a single discretionary fund to help
them with development. Things like:
- going to upstream development sprints
On 06/14/2013 02:54 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
As a member of the bitcoin team in debian, I also see how easy it
could be in the future to semi-anonymously receive payment from and
to anywhere in the world for such work, and that this may already be
going on already in Debian or other distros.
doing the work for free
and retroactively getting a donation for it is better. All donations to
large teams going to the Debian project seems to be the least
controversial solution (ignoring the fact that upstream developers don't
see any of that money).
I'm formulating a proposal that attempts
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