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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


> On 26 Jul 2016, at 10:51 AM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> It would be definitely useful to have a crowd-funding tool for all devs or even better, all OSGEO projects.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> 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 € - 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 €200. 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.
> 
> 

We are planning something exactly like this on projects. It will be a while before it is ready though.

Regards

Tim

> 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 <http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html>] of software to use. This [1 <https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org>] 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 <http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html>
>> [1] https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org <https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org>
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