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Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by Vegenoid »

soulofmischief wrote: post #36
carlosjobim wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate open source and would consider myself the chief anti-open source crusader online. I always try to avoid FOSS and pay indie developers for their software. However, in a few cases I've been forced to use FOSS solutions when there's been no other alternative, and then I donate to the creator of it. And I always see the same thing. Thousands and thousands of downloads over the years and the creator has earned only…

For every perceived freeloader is someone who selflessly donated their time and energy so that someone else could benefit from it and improve it if they wanted to.

I'm not quite sure how these are supposed to balance each other? User who benefits and contributes nothing is balanced by the hardworking contributor? And there is certainly not a contributor for every user.

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by Larrikin »

breck wrote: post #75
traceroute66 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's already 10x more simpler than the 20 page document some of these other orgs have you fill. Looking at you I guess somebody has to point out the obvious .... First, the process is probably simpler because the donation amounts are going to be smaller. If there's only $1M per year in the bank, I somehow don't see them giving out the sorts of large sums the others you mentioned do, e.g. OpenTechFund says it will…

> Finally, sadly, the most obvious point .... a longer form helps sort the wheat from the chaff. Both in terms of cutting down the volume of applications some poor soul has to trawl over, but also helping keep the quality of applications high. Opposite effect, actually. Longer forms get you a lot of the top 10%, but you miss out on the top 0.0001% who don't want to waste their time with people who aren't smart enough…

Is there any actual evidence of this? It seems to just be something lazy people who believe themselves to be smart would say.

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by breck »

Larrikin wrote: post #82
breck wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Finally, sadly, the most obvious point .... a longer form helps sort the wheat from the chaff. Both in terms of cutting down the volume of applications some poor soul has to trawl over, but also helping keep the quality of applications high. Opposite effect, actually. Longer forms get you a lot of the top 10%, but you miss out on the top 0.0001% who don't want to waste their time with people who aren't smart enough…

Is there any actual evidence of this? It seems to just be something lazy people who believe themselves to be smart would say.

> Is there any actual evidence of this?

Great question.

Some starting ideas to look for datasets: look at quality of innovation coming out of YC (short form that can be completed in < 10 minutes) versus many government agencies such as NIH (long, horrible application process that require attending training sessions).

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by pacmansyyu »

simonhamp wrote: post #72

I am trying to submit my funding.json, it validates when I check the validator, but fails when I submit with the error: "too many lines in the .well-known list" I have 1 line in my .well-known lists Here's my funding.json: https://nativephp.com/funding.json Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?

Hi, I'm from the team at Zerodha. It seems as if the well-known URL for the laravel repository points to the GitHub page[1] instead of the URL for the raw code[2]. Changing the well-known URL to the raw code path should fix this issue. Will pass this feedback on to the team to improve the experience, thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/nativephp/laravel/blob/main/.well-known/f... [2]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nativephp/laravel/refs/hea...

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by brynet »

This seems very "project focused" rather than developer focused, many people contribute to open source projects but don't necessarily represent their project or don't wish to take away funding from those projects, but could still desperately use funding for their work.

I have a personal donation page but I'm struggling to get and retain funding, especially monthly donations, which would make it easier to spend time on the projects I contribute to (either my time highlighting the work of others on social media, or writing code).

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by simonhamp »

pacmansyyu wrote: post #85
simonhamp wrote: post #72

I am trying to submit my funding.json, it validates when I check the validator, but fails when I submit with the error: "too many lines in the .well-known list" I have 1 line in my .well-known lists Here's my funding.json: https://nativephp.com/funding.json Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?

Hi, I'm from the team at Zerodha. It seems as if the well-known URL for the laravel repository points to the GitHub page[1] instead of the URL for the raw code[2]. Changing the well-known URL to the raw code path should fix this issue. Will pass this feedback on to the team to improve the experience, thanks! [1]: https://github.com/nativephp/laravel/blob/main/.well-known/f... [2]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/na…

Sure, but that's not how it's demonstrated in the docs...

I've updated it, but that also doesn't work AND fails validation because:

"projects[0].repositoryUrl.url and `projects[0].repositoryUrl.wellKnown` hostnames do not match"

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by mr-karan »

knowitnone wrote: post #83

This is great. However, I'd rather Zerodha just award the FOSS projects they use instead of having random projects apply. I hope many more companies do this especially the big companies. I'm guessing there are also tax incentives at play here.

From the blog post

> In addition, we have given out many sizeable grants to FOSS projects and organisations in India. While funding projects outside India involves significant paperwork and operational overhead, we have reached out to several small and large projects that we use at work and have managed to pay them. This highly ad hoc approach is something that has increasingly bugged me though.

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by pacmansyyu »

simonhamp wrote: post #87
pacmansyyu wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I'm from the team at Zerodha. It seems as if the well-known URL for the laravel repository points to the GitHub page[1] instead of the URL for the raw code[2]. Changing the well-known URL to the raw code path should fix this issue. Will pass this feedback on to the team to improve the experience, thanks! [1]: https://github.com/nativephp/laravel/blob/main/.well-known/f... [2]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/na…

Sure, but that's not how it's demonstrated in the docs... I've updated it, but that also doesn't work AND fails validation because: "projects[0].repositoryUrl.url and `projects[0].repositoryUrl.wellKnown` hostnames do not match"

Apologies for my previous misguiding comment. We have figured out the issue and a fix is being implemented right now to handle URLs for GitHub repositories and suffix them with `?raw=true` to automatically to fetch the raw file. The fix should be live soon.

In the meanwhile, if you would like to submit the project, you could use the following URL which redirects to the `raw.githubusercontent.com` page: https://github.com/nativephp/laravel/raw/main/.well-known/fu...

I hope this helps!

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