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Here's my idea for getting more money to open source. Someone please implement it, I'm too busy right now. Central repository (database with website and API frontends) that contains links to donation pages for all open source software. This is crowdsourced information. So if you search for "spark", apache spark appears with link to donation page, and of course more obscure packages will be added as well. Then a CLI t…
Here's my idea for getting more money to open source. Someone please implement it, I'm too busy right now. Central repository (database with website and API frontends) that contains links to donation pages for all open source software. This is crowdsourced information. So if you search for "spark", apache spark appears with link to donation page, and of course more obscure packages will be added as well. Then a CLI t…
I think this is a great idea. I would love to build it, but don't think I have the breadth of knowledge necessary. Does anything already exist like the CLI tool to determine what OS packages are in your project?
Paying per commit seems as sensible as paying per LOC (related story: [1]). Simple recurrent monthly donations as one can easily set up (eg. on Flattr) make more sense, in my opinion. [1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
Issues closed is probably a better metric, though there's no actually good metric for software development.
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Patreon is more popular, though, and used by a lot of artists. You'll need more arguments than "well it exists too" to convince users to sign up for both.
It seems to not be there now, but some months ago, patreon's entry page listed out the types of "creators" that one could sign up as. As I recall, this list seemed to take actual pain to not mention open source software, among an otherwise exhaustive list of creative endeavors including not just art, music, writing, but technical endeavors as well as such as research. I always took this to mean "programmers not welco…
$Manager: What are you working on today?
$Programmer: The usual Cratfting/DIY.
$Manager: OK, sounds good.
Here's my idea for getting more money to open source. Someone please implement it, I'm too busy right now. Central repository (database with website and API frontends) that contains links to donation pages for all open source software. This is crowdsourced information. So if you search for "spark", apache spark appears with link to donation page, and of course more obscure packages will be added as well. Then a CLI t…
I think this is a great idea. I would love to build it, but don't think I have the breadth of knowledge necessary. Does anything already exist like the CLI tool to determine what OS packages are in your project?
http://stackshare.io/airbnb/airbnb
(so a company imports its Stackshare profile & you make a list of the open source projects they're using, and if you have donation information from those projects you show it)
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I think this is a great idea. I would love to build it, but don't think I have the breadth of knowledge necessary. Does anything already exist like the CLI tool to determine what OS packages are in your project?
Stackshare could be a basic source, as an example, check Airbnb: http://stackshare.io/airbnb/airbnb (so a company imports its Stackshare profile & you make a list of the open source projects they're using, and if you have donation information from those projects you show it)
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I think this is a great idea. I would love to build it, but don't think I have the breadth of knowledge necessary. Does anything already exist like the CLI tool to determine what OS packages are in your project?
Stackshare could be a basic source, as an example, check Airbnb: http://stackshare.io/airbnb/airbnb (so a company imports its Stackshare profile & you make a list of the open source projects they're using, and if you have donation information from those projects you show it)
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Stackshare could be a basic source, as an example, check Airbnb: http://stackshare.io/airbnb/airbnb (so a company imports its Stackshare profile & you make a list of the open source projects they're using, and if you have donation information from those projects you show it)
That's a superb idea, but I think that would happen after first getting the basic donation information. I will set up a website to gather this with a description of what the project is trying to accomplish, and see if it gets any traction.
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That's a superb idea, but I think that would happen after first getting the basic donation information. I will set up a website to gather this with a description of what the project is trying to accomplish, and see if it gets any traction.
Yes, let me know, I'll be happy to help and/or continue the brainstorming You can ping me: matias AT insaurral.de :D
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Stackshare could be a basic source, as an example, check Airbnb: http://stackshare.io/airbnb/airbnb (so a company imports its Stackshare profile & you make a list of the open source projects they're using, and if you have donation information from those projects you show it)
That's a superb idea, but I think that would happen after first getting the basic donation information. I will set up a website to gather this with a description of what the project is trying to accomplish, and see if it gets any traction.