Folks, A lot of contributors here are deserving of reward for their efforts. As a result I do make one off or continuing patreon donations to a few in our community.
The discussion of money can be difficult but I would like to hear your considered thoughts. In my own circumstances I am currently unemployed, If I take a full time job, I will have far less time for TiddlyWiki, although I hope to use it in my job. As you may be aware I already try and contribute a lot to the community and as a result of developing super user or designer skills I have designed many tools and features for tiddlywiki. Basically I have a library of many dozens of tools, however I have not being able to justify the time to polish and publish them. Many of my tools are designed to fill gaps that arise, as I develop larger tiddlywiki solutions, mostly for my self. What I would like your feedback on both as users and developers is the possibility of some of us (especially myself) being able to attract some sponsorship to get the job done. Here are my thoughts; - Provide a patreon or similar channel for regular donations to sponsor my time producing such open source solutions. - Provide a requests channel, so people can submit a request for a solution. - Provide a list of tools you can choose to sponsor for earlier release through donations which also act as an upvote. - Finally offer a private method to commission work. Given my belief in Open source I would continue to contribute much for free, especially contributions to the forums. Any work funded by sponsorship or donations would be made freely available to the community. Only specific and private commissions may not, although components may be. *Some possible issues* One issue for me is even if people value such a service to request or bring forward particular solutions, ultimately I will still need to depend on the generosity of others when I need help in the forums. I do still have a few areas of weakness. Whilst I can see circumstances when donations may permit me to commission others I don't expect this would be so common, unless my earnings are sufficient to cover this. Perhaps I can grant contributors credit in my own "shop" for thanks. Equity for people such as Jeremy and other developers needs to be addressed. Can we find a way to encourage more contributions to those such as Jeremy, Mario and Eric without the community becoming an "only if funded model". Of course if people are in a position to give their time freely we want to encourage this to continue. If I am going to do this I need to start in a hurry, so I do not want to add anything unnecessary to the "critical path" but perhaps we could have a shared "shop". Yours with trepidation and sincerity. Tones -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/dea67d98-2b96-43e4-9974-8643508a2b94n%40googlegroups.com.
