Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

2016 6:41 AM > To: Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> > Cc: distutils-sig <distutils-sig@python.org> > Subject: Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers > via PyPI > > On 29 July 2016 at 02:09, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gma

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On Jul 26, 2016, at 01:24 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >The PSF has considered this, but there's not a lot of value we could >provide above and beyond other organisations that already do this for >open source projects in general. For example: > >- Software Freedom Conservancy >- Software in the Public

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On 29 July 2016 at 02:09, Nicholas Chammas wrote: > Would it simplify things for the PSF if they partnered with someone who took > care of moving the money around? If a global payments provider came to the PSF (or the Packaging Working Group within the PSF) and said

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:11 PM Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: > On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas > wrote: > > I know a more concrete proposal would have to address a lot of details > (e.g. like how to split

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On 26 July 2016 at 04:52, Chris Barker wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > note: for a higher level of support, the PSF _could_ follow the numfocus > approach: > > NumFocus is a properly set-up non-profit that can act as a

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > OTOH, if we give up on that part of the idea, then it becomes much easier > :-). It'd be straightforward for PyPI to provide a "how to donate to this > project" box on each project page, that has links to whatever

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

https://donate.pypi.io/ - Minimum donation: $5 - 1 year PSF Associate Member: $99 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiviCRM ) SSL certs were a primary cost before letsencrypt (which is sponsored by a large number of organizations): - https://letsencrypt.org/ -

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On 24 July 2016 at 04:40, Nicholas Chammas wrote: > This may be a heretical idea, and it’s definitely not something anyone is > likely to take on anytime soon, but I’d like to put it up for discussion and > see what people think. The PSF wouldn't want to get involved

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-donation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software#Voluntary_donations - http://alternativeto.net/software/gittip/ (TIL GitTip

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:35 PM Daniel Holth wrote: > Have you seen https://rubytogether.org ? It looks like exactly what you > are proposing, only with more blocks. > Interesting. I hadn't heard of that before now. I'm not sure what you mean by "with more blocks", but that

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:22 PM Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Jul 23, 2016 11:40 AM, "Nicholas Chammas" > wrote: > > > [...] > > > > You can already do this today, of course, with services like PayPal, > Gratipay, and Salt. But the process is scattered

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

Have you seen https://rubytogether.org ? It looks like exactly what you are proposing, only with more blocks. On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:25 PM Steve Dower wrote: > On 23Jul2016 1211, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > >> On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas > >>

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On 23Jul2016 1211, Donald Stufft wrote: On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas > wrote: I know a more concrete proposal would have to address a lot of details (e.g. like how to split contributions across multiple

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

> On Jul 23, 2016, at 12:11 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > >> On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas > > wrote: >> >> I know a more concrete proposal would have to address a lot of details (e.g. >> like

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

On Jul 23, 2016 11:40 AM, "Nicholas Chammas" wrote: > [...] > You can already do this today, of course, with services like PayPal, Gratipay, and Salt. But the process is scattered and different for each Python package and the group of people behind it. What’s more, it

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

> On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas > wrote: > > I know a more concrete proposal would have to address a lot of details (e.g. > like how to split contributions across multiple maintainers), and perhaps > there is no way to find the resources to build

[Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

This may be a heretical idea, and it’s definitely not something anyone is likely to take on anytime soon, but I’d like to put it up for discussion and see what people think. I often find myself wanting to show gratitude to the authors or maintainers of a package by giving money. Most of the time,