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

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi, 

Some more research dug up: 

http://www.selfstarter.us/ - OSGEO or QGIS.ORG could use this to set up
our own crowd funding site. Integrates with Amazon payments (credit card
fees apply) 

https://open.tilt.com/ - seems to only charge 2.5% plus credit cart
fees. Probably one of the cheapest hosted crowd funding services. 

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One of the issues of a crowd-funding platform is that it should allow
"manual overrides" - e.g. a gov organization usually just can't do a
credit card transaction, but needs an invoice with wire transfer. So any
platform we choose has to allow such flexibility. 

Greetings,
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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[2] https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org
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