Hey Jeremy, Thanks for your answers. Im happy to contribute to the TW community, and to you for all your work on TW. I just wasn't sure how exactly this Fission (backed? sponsored? held?) funding initiative related to the main project.
In other words, before people sign up to be a monthly or even yearly contributor, it might be worth clarifying that their contributions aren't just to a specific small part of the TW world (a saver), or to an entirely different project (Fission), but instead to the TW community itself! Thanks again, Diego On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 2:01:53 PM UTC-5 jeremy...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Diego > > Can you (or anyone) help clarify what the open collective funding project > is for Tiddlywiki on Fission? > > > Fission have a vision around open source communities using Open Collective > as a way for members of the community to financially support the people > making the software, and the infrastructure that the community uses. A sort > of lightweight version of Kickstarter for crowdfunding the ongoing > development of plugins and editions. > > It’s an area that has always interested me, but also gives me some > nervousness. The challenge is that there is a paradox: at least speaking > for myself, I’m not really doing all of this for money, the compulsion is > deeper, and the true rewards are in the interactions I have with the > community. But simultaneously, we all need money to survive. > > Happily, move adventurous people than me have been exploring this stuff > for many years, which is how Open Collective came into existence, and the > model seems to be enduring. > > TiddlyWiki on Fission gives us an opportunity to explore these ideas in > real life. > > https://opencollective.com/tiddlywiki-on-fission > > As in, > > - Who are we paying? > > The money is being held ready for distribution. > > > - What are we paying for? > > That’s for us to decide > > > - Are you getting that money? > > Emphatically not Jeremy, or Fission. This is Fission bootstrapping > infrastructure on behalf of the community for us to explore and develop as > we see fit. > > > - If so, how much? > - Is that also for general TW improvements? Or is it specific to > TW-on-Fission? > > Our immediate goals are around TWoF, if things work well perhaps we’ll > bring it to the main project. > > > - Will this outlive the TW on fission project? > > Perhaps, it’s certainly really an independent initiative. > > > - Is this the only (or just primary?) way to support you, the TW > developer? > > At the moment, my “business model” is to do custom development and support > work for a small number of clients. The contracts I do are fairly long term > arrangements, on an ordinary commercial basis. It’s working well for me, so > it’s not really a priority for me to move to a different model at the > moment. I think the opportunity is for the broader community to explore the > model > > > - etc. > > Im a bit confused, as I thought this was just another saver/platform for > hosting personal TWs. > > > Yes, there’s a lot going on and I’m sure we could communicate it more > clearly! The development work we’re doing on the saver is really the main > story here at the moment. > > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cf42a5f7-4ea7-4fe5-aac5-68cf5365f4e5n%40googlegroups.com.
