> > While I wish I could hire you, I think it might be beneficial for you to have > a "patreon" type support mechanism as well, so that those of us that cant > directly hire you, can still "buy you coffee/beer" every once and while > through there. > > Good idea, more people would willing to contribute a donation than needing to > hire.
>From quite an early point I realised that I shouldn’t in all good conscience >ask the broad TiddlyWiki community for cash because in reality it’s actually >me who should be paying them. The reason is that it is thanks to the interest of this community I’ve been able to find and pursue what I can only call my life's work — and that’s a rare privilege. But the point is that it’s entirely thanks to the community that any of this has happened. Without the support of the community I couldn’t do this. So, I wouldn’t rule out having a Patreon but my current model is a bit more utopian: to try to win decent-sized commercial projects from the relatively few members of the community that can afford it. It’s worked quite well for the last couple of years. My clients are basically buying a custom business app based on TiddlyWiki. A custom app written by one person would ordinarily be a bit of a liability for a commercial organisation because of the risks if that person with their specialised knowledge were no longer available. TiddlyWiki’s open source community mitigates that risk, and my clients know that they could obtain the expertise they needed elsewhere if they needed to. So, again, this community underpins my commercial work as well. The other nice thing about me not having a Patreon is that it hopefully leaves more in the pot for the contributors who do have one. Best wishes Jeremy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/166a547d-5f0e-4a38-a0f6-eff65854af9d%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/166a547d-5f0e-4a38-a0f6-eff65854af9d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4DAA007A-EFEF-4374-80C3-F29F6048ED52%40gmail.com.
