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

[Luigi Pirelli]

Hi

I'm not really well informed about all available crowdfunding
platforms, btw did youevaluate "goteo"?:

https://en.goteo.org/

it is a a platfomr similar to kickstarter, but oriented to Commons and
foss based.

cheers
Luigi Pirelli

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On 26 July 2016 at 11:40, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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