Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

#1

Post by LorenDB » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 1:48 AM UTC

Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
thanks.dev

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

#2

Post by angelgonzales » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:25 AM UTC

I’d love too but I dislike using payment processors as middlemen for online transactions! I see you’re using Stripe which is one of the worst processors because they opaquely block all sorts of transactions. It would be great to use a system like this to promote and fund open source projects and fuel cottage industry without having to include megacorporations. Make a mail cash option for people who don’t want to show their papers to a payment processor!

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by muppetman » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:27 AM UTC

At first I thought "Oh another Patreon/Open Collective" but actually this is kinda neat in how it works.

Slightly offtopic, but every month when my Patreon donations get processed Patreon sends me this STUPID email with "Tweet your receipt!" Honestly, it's so pathetic. It's like giving food to a homeless person while filming it so I can post it on Twitter.

Yes I realise it's an option and I don't have to (nor do I) click it.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:30 AM UTC

angelgonzales wrote: post #2

I’d love too but I dislike using payment processors as middlemen for online transactions! I see you’re using Stripe which is one of the worst processors because they opaquely block all sorts of transactions. It would be great to use a system like this to promote and fund open source projects and fuel cottage industry without having to include megacorporations. Make a mail cash option for people who don’t want to show…

thanks for the feedback & you raise a valid point, we'd love to look at additional payment options :)

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by throwaway888abc » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:30 AM UTC

Love this! Hope it will take off.

"Webpack receives close to $200k in funding per year via OpenCollective but its direct dependencies receive minuscule amounts of funding, and there are 80+ of them."

♥

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:31 AM UTC

muppetman wrote: post #3

At first I thought "Oh another Patreon/Open Collective" but actually this is kinda neat in how it works. Slightly offtopic, but every month when my Patreon donations get processed Patreon sends me this STUPID email with "Tweet your receipt!" Honestly, it's so pathetic. It's like giving food to a homeless person while filming it so I can post it on Twitter. Yes I realise it's an option and I don't have to (nor do I) c…

thanks for taking the time to study how thanks.dev works & taking the time to write about it. Here's a recent article that was also published about how we're different https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/07/thanksdev_open_source...

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:36 AM UTC

throwaway888abc wrote: post #5

Love this! Hope it will take off. "Webpack receives close to $200k in funding per year via OpenCollective but its direct dependencies receive minuscule amounts of funding, and there are 80+ of them." ♥

thanks for the support, let's hope we find the source code for open source success! :)

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by hardwaresofton » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:49 AM UTC

We're trying to do this @ NimbusWS, but the corporate way.

Excuse the crappy looking site (been busy trying to actually deliver all the shit on that page), but I believe that F/OSS can be sustainable:

https://nimbusws.com/#sustainability

All it takes is contributing a small % of revenue back. I'm not decided that 10%-30% will be the final # (can a business give that much and still compete?), but then also some of me feels that it should actually flip at some point (30% for nimbus, 70% for F/OSS project) if most of the value is actually the F/OSS project (i.e. the project is so high quality that all we do is mostly run it and upgrade it happily).

Right now only the Redis service is available (object storage is coming soon (tm)), but kick the tires:

https://nimbusws.com/app (register @ the bottom!)

One thing we haven't figured out is how to pay library authors. dunno what to do, but early idea is some % contribution and letting people calculate allotment (ex. 5% of your 20% revenue donation must go to libs, but you pick which libs you depend on get the most).

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by ianlevesque » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:51 AM UTC

I really want someone to succeed at this and I like the approach but you need to run not walk to making it usable without private source code access. That’s a non-starter.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by myself248 » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:55 AM UTC

hardwaresofton wrote: post #8

We're trying to do this @ NimbusWS, but the corporate way. Excuse the crappy looking site (been busy trying to actually deliver all the shit on that page), but I believe that F/OSS can be sustainable: https://nimbusws.com/#sustainability All it takes is contributing a small % of revenue back. I'm not decided that 10%-30% will be the final # (can a business give that much and still compete?), but then also some of me…

Much admiration for your stance on giving back.

Much confusion that this domain isn't for the Nimbus weather station.

Ah, the cloud! Is there anything it can't do?