Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

floss.fund

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 112 posts

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

#91

Post by simonhamp »

pacmansyyu wrote: post #89
simonhamp wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Awesome! It worked! Thanks so much.

Looking forward to being listed and considered for funding :)

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

#94

Post by MITSardine »

andris9 wrote: post #71
myprotegeai wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing. It's an interesting idea, to try to trampoline it into another related commercial project. I just checked my RTD analytics, I get around 1k pageviews to `/` per month. Unfortunately I don't have a related commercial product either.

When I started with Nodemailer, my goal was to build a cool product—not to become an unpaid helpdesk employee for life. But here we are. So, I’ve been trying to monetize the project in various ways for the past ten years. I’ve tried everything (license restrictions, freelancing and consulting, paid extensions, etc.), and each approach failed for different reasons. The only strategy that actually took off was using No…

Could you expand on the strategies you tried, and how they failed?

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

#95

Post by dang »

youssefabdelm wrote: post #21

* Fine print: For successful projects only, and up to $100K per year per project —— From their FAQ: > Currently, our focus is on supporting existing, widely used, and impactful projects to specifically contribute to their sustainability. Very new projects or projects with minimal usage are not considered for the time being. > A project can apply for funding of up to $100,000 in one year. To keep the logistics and ope…

Thanks—we've taken the dollars out of the title above.

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

#97

Post by pacmansyyu »

simonhamp wrote: post #91
pacmansyyu wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Awesome! It worked! Thanks so much. Looking forward to being listed and considered for funding :)

Cheers! The issue has been fixed now and is live. Thanks a lot for your feedback :)

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

#98

Post by bravura »

Suggestion:

Add "passthrough" field with a float value, and the idea is that you are sub-awarding a percentage of your grant to projects that you rely upon or want to succeed.

Then, people who are not open source maintainers but do spend their time indexing high-quality open source can have a 1.0 pass through funding.json passthrough to repos they believe are worth supporting.

And people who do not spend their time indexing high-quality open source but trust other people that DO spend their time indexing high-quality open source can have an index fund of donation streams.

In which case we can welcome both people who want to endow but don't have time and the people who have time but can't endow as much.

If anyone is interested in talking to me about this problem, I'm down

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

#99

Post by remram »

meonkeys wrote: post #93
remram wrote: post #92

It seems that "plans" are required? Or is that just a quirk of the builder UI?

Yep, at least one plan is required. See https://floss.fund/funding-manifest/#schema

So, I should create a plan with amount=0, set the currency to USD anyway, and label it "any donation appreciated"? What is the workflow?

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

#100

Post by kelnos »

traceroute66 wrote: post #30
Semaphor wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> just that they are kicking the can down the road: "Just" does a lot of heavy lifting here, considering that you only need all that paperwork if you are accepted ;)

> "Just" does a lot of heavy lifting here No, it does not. Might I invite you to consider the context of what I am saying ? The OP here was boasting about "all you need" is a funding.json and none of the 20 pages of forms of the other organisations the OP chose to name and shame. What I am saying is you're not going to escape those 20 pages. Do it now or do it later, you're still going to have to put in more effort t…

> What I am saying is you're not going to escape those 20 pages.

I don't think that's clear at all. The part you quoted mentions tax forms as an example of what will need to be filled out afterward. Of course you'll need to fill those sorts of things out, and that feels very distinct from some sort of multi-page application where you have to tell them why you believe you deserve the grant. And the start of the sentence you quoted is, "If your application is accepted", which to me implies that they're going to make a firm yes/no decision as to whether to give you money based solely on the funding.json thing.

Of course only time will tell how this will work out in practice, but their initial wording seems to suggest they will make a go/no-go decision based on a very simple "application".

Post reply on HN