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

[Nyall Dawson]

On 26 July 2016 at 18:17, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> 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...

I'd love this!

I spent a long time researching existing crowd funding platforms
before launching the current campaign and just couldn't find one which
was enterprise-friendly enough. When I ran the layer effects
kickstarter I had a LOT of feedback from people who wanted to be able
to donate but couldn't because of various reasons, like:
- could not get approval to finance projects via Kickstarter
- could not accept payments via paypal, direct donations, or other means
- could not get approval from their organisation to "fund in advance"

That's why in the end I decided just to run this all manually, and
invoice pledgers directly when the campaign ends. Unfortunately the
side effect of this approach is that it makes a lot more
administrative work, which is why the minimum amount is required.

I hate having to cut out the micro-donations (since they are very
important!), but just couldn't find a way to meet the needs of both
individuals doing micro donations and organisations wishing to
contribute larger amounts. None of the hosted services do this, and I
shied away from the self-hosted ones (even though some open source
ones look quite attractive!) as I can't afford the time investment
required to setup/maintain these.

So in short... I'd love to have access to a more flexible crowd
funding platform which is specifically tailored to funding open source
software development!

Nyall



>
> 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] of software to use. This [1] 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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