Governments should do this even on outsourced contracts
Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
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Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#82The 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.
Try this perspective: As an open source dev, I don't mind taking them 5% of the donation I recieve from their platform.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#83I 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…
Thanks for raising the issue. Is it okay for you to forward the funds to other people in the ecosystem?
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#84Awesome to see someone try and do this! I was kicking the idea around a few years ago but got sidetracked: https://github.com/tythe-protocol/tythe.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#85I 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…
Thanks for raising the issue. Is it okay for you to forward the funds to other people in the ecosystem?
Not sure if you're assuming that I am using the service with the wording "for you" or if it's a general question (I'm not a user). But if it's a general question, legally speaking, my best guess (not a lawyer) is that it would be perfectly legal to make a maintainer account to forward the funds to other projects, since you are not receiving anything. I guess you know if a feature like that is worth the trouble to implement.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#86I just started using GitHub Sponsor for some repos. How is this different?
Hi Animesh! The biggest difference would be that TD answers both "who should I sponsor AND how much?". It continually calculates the weight of each dependency in your codebase and distributes your monthly budget accordingly. The next biggest difference is that it distributes micro-payments up to 3 levels deep into the dependency tree. We've noticed majority of people sponsor the top of mind projects, but the deep nes…
Thank you for the clarification. I will consider it in a near future.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#87Donation income is risibly small.
People will sign praise your work, tell you how much they depend on it, and how it changed their lives. Others will ask you tricky questions that really ought to be asked to a lawyer.
...and they still won't donate a cent. I get about 70 cents per thousand unique visitors. About one in every 14,000 visitors donate. Affiliate income is roughly 100 times that without trying.
Let me put it differently: with the same traffic, donations barely cover my groceries, and affiliate income is a comfortable salary.
I'm at peace with that. I make free things for a reason. It's just something to keep in mind when suggesting donations as a business model. Doubly so as an alternative to ads.
Another tidbit: praise people who create the things you use. It feels so good to know that people use and love the fruits of your labour. I've become lavish in my praise after experience the effects of it.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#88You should order the people list, so that maintainer / repo owner come first.
Yeah good point. We should have it done soon.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#89The 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…
> There is absolutely nothing wrong with charging a fee for a service
Agreed, but percentage-based fees can quickly become an unfairly large part of payments. I love the idea of this project, but I'd prefer there to be a 5% or X dollars minimum, so that if 5% is more than X dollars, then it doesn't force 5% minimum. If I'm donating $500 to 45 projects, then each project on an even split is getting $11, but thanks.dev is getting $25 even though their service isn't actually in use by my app/service. Seems unfair to me.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#90Donation income is risibly small. People will sign praise your work, tell you how much they depend on it, and how it changed their lives. Others will ask you tricky questions that really ought to be asked to a lawyer. ...and they still won't donate a cent. I get about 70 cents per thousand unique visitors. About one in every 14,000 visitors donate. Affiliate income is roughly 100 times that without trying. Let me put…
If many open projects are funded via ads, will Copilot tools crater open source revenues by reducing traffic to documentation?