[Qgis-developer] [idea] add micro-crowdfund platform to projecta/osgeo

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi Richard, 

It would be definitely useful to have a crowd-funding tool for all devs
or even better, all OSGEO projects. 

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There are already existing crowd-funding platforms, but usually they
keep a significant portion of the income. As an example, kickstarter
keeps 5% of all income. If it is a larger project (say 30k), that would
equal to 1500 EUR - enough to be significant and enough to implement
other small stuff for QGIS. 

Nyall decided to do things completely manually without a crowd-funding
platform, but to keep administration work low, avoid too small
micro-donations - for this project he set the minimum amount to EUR200.
For other bigger crowd-funding projects this may be a higher value. 

Maybe we can find a crowd-funding platform that only keeps 1-2 percent -
which would be reasonable in my opinion. Often, there is an additional
credit card or PayPal fee involved in addition. 

Andreas 

On 2016-07-26 10:17, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:

> After seeing Nyall cloudfunding campaign and finding out the minimal is
> 200 dollar when I wanted to do a small donation for fun, I thought that
> it would be cool if we as QGIS or OSGEO would have our own micro
> crowdfunding platform...
> 
> The idea is to make it easier for (core)-developers to launch such a
> campaign..
> 
> First thing I thought is to make it part of 'projecta', maybe only
> working with paypal or so?
> 
> But then I thought it would also be a benefit for OSGEO/other projects
> and googled this list [0 [1]] of software to use. This [1 [2]] is even already a
> django one...
> 
> I was thinking also about the 'tagged/labeled'-donations of Ubuntu,
> where IF you do a (small) donation you can 'label' it to a certain
> 'piece of work'.... thinking about this... probably to much fuss/work to
> administrate this...
> 
> Just wanted to share this, but as always: just do it :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Duivenvoorde
> 
> [0] http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html
> [1] https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org
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Links:
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[1] http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html
[2] https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org
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