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Fork of XKit, the extension framework for Tumblr
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Donations! #256

Closed invalidCards closed 9 years ago

invalidCards commented 9 years ago

I have received MANY asks about people wanting to donate to us. We're gonna need to figure out a way to accept donations and divide it to the places where it's needed.

Wolvan commented 9 years ago

Am I wrong or wasn't Xenix absolutely against making XKit give money

invalidCards commented 9 years ago

Not exactly, no.

Wolvan commented 9 years ago

Oh, shit. Well, I guess we could go for donations then. How about the people with the most commits get the most money

invalidCards commented 9 years ago

That'd be rude, because all I ever do is answer asks and make issues :U

Wolvan commented 9 years ago

point taken

blackjackkent commented 9 years ago

I would recommend against giving it to the staff. Recipe for bad blood, not to mention it probably opens legal issues?

Wolvan commented 9 years ago

Donation for Child's Play or some organization similiar to them then? I wouldn't mind

invalidCards commented 9 years ago

Not sure why it would be a legal issue? It's a donation towards the team, we're not selling anything based on Tumblr, we're giving people the free option to help us out.

nightpool commented 9 years ago

We don't have the procedural infrastructure setup to handle donations right now. Maybe sometime in the future, but for now we can just say no.

(Exception to this might be a limited fundraising effort for safari support, capped at 100 dollars) On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:06 PM ThePsionic notifications@github.com wrote:

Not sure why it would be a legal issue? It's a donation towards the team, we're not selling anything based on Tumblr, we're giving people the free option to help us out.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/new-xkit/XKit/issues/256#issuecomment-130894546.

hobinjk commented 9 years ago

We currently don't have any operational costs outside of the $5 I paid for the Google developer anti-spam thing. A fundraiser for Safari support would definitely be good, some sort of one-off GoFundMe would work.

An idea I've been musing for donations would be to register on Bounty Source. If people want some bug to be fixed they can donate to that bug's bounty. This has the potential to turn us all into heartless, soulless mercenaries, but could be a pretty simple solution.

An even more ridiculous idea I had was for an XKit Patreon where the higher tiers get guaranteed time spent caring about your problems.

bvtsang commented 9 years ago

A good question to ask is what do we need money for? Off the top of my head:

invalidCards commented 9 years ago

I think the list ends there.

nightpool commented 9 years ago

We don't have a good place to put this discussion at the moment, but I don't believe github is the correct answer. I'm going to close this issue for now but continue to discuss I guess.

0xazure commented 9 years ago

Going to put these here for reference, before I forget their dam names again:

I know that https://flattr.com/ and https://gratipay.com/about/ are used around the FOSS community for supporting creators. Their models may or may not fit us, though.

dlmarquis commented 9 years ago

Paypal's API supports paying multiple people at once: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/adaptive-payments/integration-guide/APIntro/ https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/integration-guide/ECParallelPaymens/

The first link says 2-6 receivers, and the second says up to 10. Using the API seems like overkill, but less overkill than registering an organization.

gratipay might have a similar option, but currently only has manual payments to recipients outside the US.