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Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by qwerki »

koito17 wrote: post #51
qwerki wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Koito17 Thanks for trying it out! Are you able to ping me your github handle so I can get to the bottom of it (email in profile). Alternatively, for multi-project repos you can add a thanks.yaml file to the root of the repo with a `maxDepth: 2` value inside it. Unfortunately, deep scanning the entire repo looking for files would be prohibitive due to GH rate limiting hence this approach. Please keep me posted. I'm…

Hi. First of all, thanks for the quick response, and more importantly, working on this cool idea! I see on the website that CLJS isn't supported; that's fine. But the NPM dependencies not being detected does intrigue me. I'm going to follow up with you on Discord if that's fine

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Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by dewey »

gabereiser wrote: post #63
aunty_helen wrote: post #38

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The irony of "someone should build something for free" when complaining about a donation system for helping open source projects get paid for their work.

No, the idea of having a simple payments system for open source devs to use to get paid for their "free" software should be "free". Let the merit of the software dictate. That's the whole point of open source. To build things freely and openly to make the best possible software that we (humans) can make. We should also expect the same in the tools we rely on to do that work. It's not a hard ask. It's a philosophy of…

> the idea of having a simple payments system for open source devs

A payment system is never simple and if it's more than a standardized "funding.txt" format it will have running costs and someone has to cover these. How much this system should charge is debatable, but it should probably be higher than 0%.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini »

test1-test1 wrote: post #41

The dependencies(open source libraries) will figure out a way to game the system. I don't know how but maybe someone will try.

More money in the ecosystem will naturally create more competition but I’m sure the community will adapt & evolve accordingly. There’s no shortage of smart people in this space.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by Ndymium »

I love and support this idea very much. I had actually been thinking about this exact solution myself, but I'd personally want to stay clear of anything involving real money, so it's great that you're doing it. :)

Just a note which probably isn't worth your time to act on, but using this service as a maintainer in Finland is illegal unless you can offer a geoblocking feature that can block any Finnish supporters from routing money to Finnish maintainers. This is due to our Money Collection Act which prohibits soliciting any donations except for very strict circumstances which aren't really applicable here. Might be worth a note on the page if you have extra time, since this is not know by many Finns that I've talked to.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by qwerki »

helpfulclippy wrote: post #68
armini wrote: post #62

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How do you suggest we can better word/explain it?

"We charge a 5% minimum fee on each payment. If you like what we do, you have the option of leaving a tip."

Actioned. Thank you helpfulclippy! :)

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini »

noisy_boy wrote: post #37
Sephr wrote: post #23

The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.

That seems to be different from this article[0]: > Thanks.dev presently supports itself through a voluntary tip percentage that, if more than zero, gets deducted from donation amounts along with a Stripe payment processing fee prior to distribution. I also think they should allow manual addition of projects. E.g. I use Syncthing but that won't be found in my Github/Gitlab scans. I can donate via Github too but would…

Thanks for the feedback & suggestion. This is something we’d love to incorporate in our roadmap.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by qwerki »

fmx wrote: post #57
Sephr wrote: post #23

The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.

https://thanks.dev/faq says: What are your fees? Tips at time of donation. You decide. If payment is required to use a service then that payment is not a "tip" - it is a "fee". Anything over the required payment would be a "tip". This FAQ answer implies that the required payment is zero, which, it turns out, is false. There is absolutely nothing wrong with charging a fee for a service, but there is something wrong wi…

You're right @fmx. Have now updated the FAQ per helpfulclippy's suggestion. Thanks for pointing this out!

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini »

pabs3 wrote: post #53

There are several similar services out there, some of them are listed in the patronage section of the FOSSjobs wiki: https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#patronag...

Thanks for sharing this link, there’s a lot of useful content in here for people interested in this space.
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