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<p>Hi Richard,</p>
<p>It would be definitely useful to have a crowd-funding tool for all devs or even better, all OSGEO projects.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p>On 2016-07-26 10:17, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">After seeing Nyall cloudfunding campaign and finding out the minimal is<br /> 200 dollar when I wanted to do a small donation for fun, I thought that<br /> it would be cool if we as QGIS or OSGEO would have our own micro<br /> crowdfunding platform...<br /><br /> The idea is to make it easier for (core)-developers to launch such a<br /> campaign..<br /><br /> First thing I thought is to make it part of 'projecta', maybe only<br /> working with paypal or so?<br /><br /> But then I thought it would also be a benefit for OSGEO/other projects<br /> and googled this list [<a href="http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html">0</a>] of software to use. This [<a href="https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org">1</a>] is even already a<br /> django one...<br /><br /> I was thinking also about the 'tagged/labeled'-donations of Ubuntu,<br /> where IF you do a (small) donation you can 'label' it to a certain<br /> 'piece of work'.... thinking about this... probably to much fuss/work to<br /> administrate this...<br /><br /> Just wanted to share this, but as always: just do it :-)<br /><br /> Regards,<br /><br /> Richard Duivenvoorde<br /><br /> [0] <a href="http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html">http://seedingfactory.com/index.html%3Fp=634.html</a><br /> [1] <a href="https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org">https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org</a><br /> _______________________________________________<br /> Qgis-developer mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br /> List info: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br /> Unsubscribe: <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a></div>
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