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Liberapay is a non-profit, according to their website: https://liberapay.com/about/
Makes them a much better donation platform in my opinion. Having a company - with investors that only care about profit - as a middleman for donations is not a good thing.
Juan is a god damn wizard. I've been following this project since they first announced 3.0 and his progress has been nothing short of incredible. Super smart dude
They're looking for community support to have Juan develop it full time.. here is their patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
Or even better, their Liberapay, which does not take a cut from the donations.
rustc_codegen_cranelift is an alternative backend for rustc. It is meant to be faster to compile than with LLVM in debug mode. Repo: https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift/ Please support bjorn3 at https://liberapay.com/bjorn3/
Here is discussion of the previous progress report: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/mqns9l/progress_report_on_rustc_codegen_cranelift_april/
Someone on ycombinator pointed out that it's almost guaranteed not the "speaking out" part, but the "removed subscriptions" part.
This week alone, Liberapay's usage skyrocketed:
- +35% new accounts from last week (from a slow steady increase)
- +50% new active users from last week (from a slow steady increase)
- +1000% new deposits into LiberaPay (eyeballing the low average from the past several weeks)
And that's only one alternative.
For reference: patreon charges 5% on top of transaction fees (source)
Donnez:
- à la Quadrature du net pour le lobbying en Europe
- aux exégètes amateurs pour l'analyse/lobbying des projets de loi en France
- à l'Electronic Frontier Foundation aux US
Et appelez vos représentants, au niveau national, au niveau européen. Ne croyez pas les cyniques qui disent que ça sert à rien. Ça pèse cent fois plus qu'un bulletin de vote. Les gens qui cherchent à se faire réélire sont friands de petits combats qui leur coûtent pas grand chose et qui leur rapportent des voix. Les réactions de leurs électeurs sont leur seul feedback, et il y a beaucoup moins de gens qui utilisent ce canal que de gens qui votent. Il est utile.
À une époque j'aurais bien dit de rejoindre le parti pirate, mais je n'y crois plus. À la place, appelez (un coup de téléphone vaut bien plus qu'un mail) les candidats des différents partis aux prochaines élections et demandez leur leur avis sur le sujet.
S'il reçoivent un message qui parle de neutralité du net, ils vont se dire qu'ils ont reçu un appel du geek local et oublier ça. S'ils en reçoivent dix, ils vont se dire "tiens? qu'est ce qui les réveille?" et s'ils en reçoivent cent ils vont regarder de plus près cette question.
>Please support bjorn3 at https://liberapay.com/bjorn3/
It's weird that you can't do a one time donation, if I donate I will forget about it and I'll be paying him for the next 20 years, long after he has stopped working on this.
They also support Liberapay which is according to Libera itself, open source and doesnt take a cut of the donations. Youre encouraged to donate to them too instead of taking a percentage.
EDIT: on that link (and Patreon) they also mention a bitcoin address, but ideally you should double check that.
Rather than Patreon, which is designed for supporting creators that provides a continuous series of works via a content subscription service, a platform such as Ko-fi may be a simpler and more suitable means of enabling supporters to directly contribute. The least we could do for you /u/-samox- is buy you a coffee or two for your incredible efforts.
Edit: If a more stable means of support will be better than a one-time donation platform, then Liberapay will allow supporters to make recurrent donations of one or two dollars up to ~$100, with a period of every week, month, or year.
Why Liberapay, and what are its differences with Gratipay
EDIT: and just to be clear: normal payment processor fees applies of course: 2.1% + 0.21 euros for credit/debit cards. Potentially much less for bank wire but that depends on you own bank too (mine was not cheaper for smallish amount at least)
Or a libre/open source alternative like Liberapay, Bountysource or Gratipay.
But they are already running yearly crowdfunding campaigns[1] which works. They are definitely collecting a lot of money compared to the project user base. [2] There are just these unplanned tax issues.
[1] It's an interesting hybrid model (using a one time crowdfunding platform every year) which cost a lot of time to manage but makes a lot of ~~noise~~ signal about the project every year.
[2] That's my impression
Accepting donations is common practice among open-source projects.
Liberapay is another option which charges no fees, while buymeacoffee charges 5%.
> after the dust settles we'll be looking into setting up a patreon or something.
This is great news, nothing better than direct funding from the community.
Have also a look at other recurring funding platforms that are libre/open source and are more suited for software than Patreon.
This is fantastic!
I don't know if you're aware of this website.
You can set up a free account by which you can accept donations. I would love to donate something if you do end up creating one in a small manner.
Indeed, a pledge page already exists for the associated Github. For those unaware, Liberapay lets you pledge to a Github, BitBucket, or Twitter account, so that once the associated person/entity makes an account, you will automatically be set up to donate to them.
That kind of things definitely works on me. That's why I love platforms like Liberapay and Bountysource and one time crowdfundings.
It's motivating and rewarding to feel being part of moving forward the progress bar when beginning to support.
And that makes me happy to check it once in a while to see it how it progresses.
The first step is actually finding someone willing to do the job. Then you can arrange with them on the means of payment, such as wire transfer or something like Liberapay.
The big question is how to achieve the first step, aside from simply asking around. I wonder if LP itself could be extended in that sense (as in: developers could have a checkbox stating they're willing to work on commission, and donors could contribute to the commission (with the constraint that the results would have to be FLOSS, of course).
Mocking laughter aside, consider this a timely reminder to donate just a couple of cents to Archive.is.
https://liberapay.com/archiveis/donate
One guy and his little one website does so much for this community, and IT'S BECOME A TARGET.
Is 25 cents a month really going to break the budget?
The art and characters are awesome.
That plus the author
- contributes to Krita by
- answering questions in /r/krita
- trying pre-release versions
- making screencasts
- publishes pretty much everything under libre/open source licenses
- set up a collaborative system that enables the community to translate Pepper and Carrot in more than 20 languages
- uses recurring crowdfunding to find a sustainable business model compatible with his ideals
- on multiple platforms including a libre/open source one, Liberapay
It's like everything comes from my most idealists dreams o
So yeah, instadonated when I've found this out. <3
They're doing a type of labor, and it's benefiting themselves and others. I'd prefer they used Liberapay because it's a non-profit and as such isn't trying to exploiting them, but it's otherwise harmless.
Hey! After turbo.fish I thought I'd create a more useful website 😄
I also wrote a small blog post about it with some motivating examples.
Also, with this I'm now putting >100€ / year into domain names for Rust-related stuff. I'd be thrilled if some of you could help pay that through my Liberapay.
I can't answer how sustainable it is without donations, however there are tons of other open source projects that seem to be moving along just fine years later. As a user if you enjoy a project, got great usage and won't miss a few dollars, it will only help open source projects keep coming.
I believe current invidious expenses are about $80 per month, anyone can help contribute by either of the following links;
From what i've seen glancing over it, the terms and conditions don't say anything about our type of content. You can look if you want but they don't say much just the usual really.
No no ... please don't miss understand me. Funding for freecad as a whole absolutely helps the project. There is this place where funding is evenly split between the major coding contributors https://liberapay.com/FreeCAD . From personal experience I can tell that receiving even small amounts of "Thank you" money is nice and helps with morale off contributing basically for free to an open source project.
My statement of having a centralised foundation to manage donations could be detrimental is just that. A personal opinion(more of a fear) and I might be awfully wrong about that. For example I see blender foundation managing quite well funding from big tech so anything is possible.
>I've been able to upgrade my BIOS from Ubuntu since 18.04.
If you do want to donate, any extra money goes on buying test hardware (e.g. DediProg type devices) so I can help vendors get on the LVFS: https://liberapay.com/LVFS/donate
I donate to FreeCAD. It's come on a lot in the last few years and in the next few I expect it to gain market share considerably.
A decent CAD application is the only thing keeping a lot of companies off Linux, and it would be nice to fix that.
One of the main developers has a Liberapay account
Here's a video of him talking about a FreeCAD at FOSDEM 2015 link
The total cost to "Operate" FreeTube is pretty low actually. All videos are still served through YouTube so there isn't any crazy server costs that need to be made. API calls are made through the Invidious server though which does have a cost to keep up and running. The Invidious server is fully funded through donations and the FreeTube site and domain are fully funded through donations. You're welcome to leave a donation through Liberapay if you'd like.
As for other costs, I do this in my free time and it is not my full time job. I have a different job which supports me financially and it is enough to put whatever money I need to into this project.
> As a thank you for these valuable contributions, GitHub Sponsors charges zero platform fees when you support the work of other developers. We’ll also cover payment processing fees for the first 12 months of the program to celebrate the launch.
There's no doubt Microsoft has a completely different relationship with the open source community than it used to, but you don't pay $7.5 billion for something unless you plan to make it back and then some. I think this is a fine feature for Microsoft to offer via GitHub.
However, I think the open source community should be wary of exchanging autonomy for convenience. Consolidating your code into GitHub is one thing as git is very portable and distributed. Consolidating your financial infrastructure into a platform owned by one of the largest companies of all time with a checkered present and past? Be careful.
I'm not telling anyone not to use GitHub or GitHub Sponsors, but just as an awareness thing, GitLab and Liberapay are open source alternatives that are available. While I haven't personally used them much, they both are being used by a good number of high profile open source projects.
Edit: no es lo que estás buscando. Liberapay es para donaciones como Patreon o Flattr, no pagos directos.
Lo mejor sería aceptar pagos directamente en BTC/Ripple/Dogecoin.
LiberaPay? I was fishing for that name in my mind..
> Liberapay does not take a cut of payments, the service is funded by the donations to its own account. So, recipients get the full value of the donations, but there are payment processing fees when moving money in or out of Liberapay.
Edit: fan of Corporate Europe Observatory, they're on there, But setup my bank to send yearly already..
Tip: search for locations where you live.
We'd be happy to have such a team! But just "wishing" don't make things happening. :-) I mean that GIMP development is mostly done on voluntary work. Some (like myself) are trying to make GIMP develpment a paid work but we are just far from it to be a real success.
Right now, we are mostly very few to develop GIMP regularly (depending on how you consider it, I'd say between 3 to 6), and back in 2014, it was even worse. I didn't even see this bug report until a few days ago when a patch was submitted (there are just so many bug reports, it's hard to see/remember them all, even though I followed and closed already hundreds of bugs).
I don't see one, aside from the upfront credit card fees as noted above... and potentials from one's bank if they go that route... Liberapay seems to get funded via donations similar to other opensource projects... Liberapay FAQ says that there are no fees between liberapay accounts... which sounds like if I give you 10 dollars, you get 10 dollars.
Although from my side of the fence I can't see what happens when one wants to collect... seems there is a "Payday" via a payday.py program on github... that I am unable to properly interpret..
Liberapay charges no extra fee beyond payment processing fees[1]. They also allows for bank transfer which might be even cheaper depending on where you live.
They are funded using their own platform which is kinda cool.
[1] Details: (https://liberapay.com/about/faq)
** Deposits **
2.925% + $0.35 -- Applies when you deposit into your wallet, not per donation. If you deposit largish amount you'll get close to effectively 3%.
** Withdrawals **
> Withdrawing euros to a SEPA bank account is free, transfers to other countries cost €2.93 each. Withdrawing US dollars costs $3.51 per transfer regardless of the destination country.
Again, if you (as a donation receiver) withdraws largish amounts, fees become low.
"Who can use Liberapay?
In theory, anyone who has a bank account. In practice, payments may not work depending on where you live. Please contact us if you encounter any problems."
While liberapay seems nice, it may be useful to have a patreon or something as well. Might have a bit more luck there since people are already familiar with it, and may have accounts set up already. Looking at liberapay's stats page, I'm not sure it's the best idea to have it as the only donation option.
> As many people know, Matrix.org development has historically been exclusively and very generously sponsored by a large multinational telecoms infrastructure company for whom most of the core team once built telco messaging apps. However, despite the project progressing better than ever (more on that later), we have just had our funding dramatically cut by >60%.
> We seem to be suffering from a darkly amusing paradox, as the rationale from our corporate overlords is essentially: “Wow! Matrix is doing great and growing well – and you seem to have all sorts of exciting people and companies using and building on it. But we’ve been footing the whole development bill since the outset in May 2014, and this simply doesn’t feel fair. We’re happy to keep funding though – but only if others do too!”. In other words, in some ways we are a victim of our own success…
Here are the donation links:
It used to have system where you could pay in 1 big lump, and then pay regular recurring small payments to many projects from your wallet. Then the company they used for payment processing changed to not allow holding money and they were not big enough to get a licence to hold it themselves. So now it sort of emulates the old behaviour.
Its a shame because it would be nice to have a way to share £20 per month between multiple projects without incurring high transaction fees due to lots of small payments.
Hopefully they will grow to the point where they can hold money themselves.
Depending on your payment method, that might be inefficient as smaller payments lose a larger amount in fees. Saving up and donating it all in a lump at the end of the year might work out better.
There is https://liberapay.com/ which kind of does this. You set up small weekly amounts, and then make the payment as a lump.
I'm creating Esperanto-related videos on YouTube and publishing bilingual children's books in English and Esperanto which makes great "trojan horse" gifts so that people have an Esperanto book on their shelves with a mini textbook inside it even if they aren't interested in that second language right away. You could also support Bertilo and the work that he's doing here: https://liberapay.com/Bertilo
> Debating dropping straight youtube for Invidious, but am somewhat tied to it since I try and support small time content makers I watch with traffic
That's nice of you. If you want to support someone I would suggest a reliable service like Liberapay.
I'm developing an open source game called Vegan on a Desert Island (VOADI). I'm making $245/mo from it, and using this money to pay freelancers to create new freely-licensed assets.
The projects should all sign up at Liberapay.
It works kinda like Flattr (which have been moving in a different direction). You put in a bunch of money, choose the projects you want to support, and how much money you want to donate on a regular basis. I find it much more convenient than using single payments.
For “basic” funding, an option could be something like LiberaPay. That platform however is design to support free culture and open source software development, so it's geared towards a difference funding model compared to Patreon (in particular, you cannot use it for commission work, there's isn't the concept of tiered content, etc).
Debit/credit card or bank wire transfer. (I see it's not explicitly listed in the https://liberapay.com/about/faq)
If you try do donate to someone (eg. https://liberapay.com/Liberapay/donate) a faq appears at the bottom:
> What payment methods are available? > >We currently support most credit and debit cards (VISA and MasterCard), as well as bank wires (in euros). More options will be added in the future.
~~It was uploaded to some pastebin site but it's long gone. It involved do-notation and funny-looking data types to interact imperatively with the API.~~ Here you go! (All tribute goes to karroffel). Of course, great benefits would still come from any pure functions you define and use, so I'd love to see something like that happen.
Topological naming, and User Interface. That is basically it.
TPN fix is coming with 0.20 thanks to Realthunder's work.
User Interface is so hard in large scale open source applications because as u/HopefulAtTimes mentioned, there's very little "structure" to development. No design committee or overseeing figure or visionary for this application. It's just a dozen people in their spare time being paid not-nearly-enough to create this software that requires a lot of niche knowledge.
No one is there to make the call of "We're changing the workflow for this tool, it's better now, get over it," because it's a community project and things have to be agreed upon without ruffling feathers. And there will always be someone who doesn't agree, because "change is bad!" So instead of just making an educated design decision and users adapting to changes a little bit at a time, there's yet another probably-unnecessary preference buried in a menu or hidden behind a keyboard shortcut. Or, even worse, development on something doesn't even start because it's not a "good fit" with the way FreeCAD works right now and no one would agree to make that change, even if it is for the better.
I am not trying to disparage FreeCAD or its community or development team. This is probably the worst part of any open source project of this complexity: without a leader always looking at the big picture (and sometimes, allocating resources), it becomes a jumbled mess.
I would love for FreeCAD to be the next Blender; it needs at least one UI/UX expert, and a leader who would let that person make changes for the better. And, you know, millions of dollars a year to pay everyone to actually do this would be great: go donate!! https://liberapay.com/FreeCAD
I have been using dark table for the past 6 years and I have to say it has come so far. I prefer the control Darktable gives you especially with all the masking. I have tried to use Lightroom again just feel it's limiting. If you can spare a few dollars make a donation to the project or to this developer https://liberapay.com/aurelienpierre/ he has spent a lot of time on improving Darktable the past few years and has really brought the project a long way. Open source projects need donations to help pay people for there time as we know everyone is short on time these days.
Is the Calyx page on liberapay real? Does it even make sens to donate there? I mean if only a few ppl donate the cost for management, like the time to withdraw etc, is going to be higher than the donations.
It would be interesting to have a page showing active user count, something like liberapay stat page or the-federation project page.
I love KDE and want to contribute a little bit more financially, but the donations page doesn't have any easy options for me. As stewards of the KDE project, is there any interest in further expanding the donation page to accept things like Liberapay, Patreon, Github Sponsors, Crypto, or maybe even a place for individual KDE contributors to get donations?
It's a shame no one is supporting you. I'm myself a bit broke but as soon as I can I'll drop something on your Patreon ...or maybe you could use Liberapay which is maybe more appropriate for this kind of project. I don't know but I feel Patreon is maybe not the right platform.
Great App, by the way, I love the modern look
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https://liberapay.com/ngraham/donate
I mean, if you use KDE software for years like I do, you can clearly feel the major impact /u/pointieststick has had ever since he took an active role in Plasma development. Every FOSS project needs a committed and passionate guy like him that contributes both with code and charisma.
rustc_codegen_cranelift is an alternative backend for rustc. It is meant to be faster to compile than with LLVM in debug mode. Repo: https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift/ Please support bjorn3 at https://liberapay.com/bjorn3/
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Most orgs I want to give to are not members yet, but there is an Unclaimed donations page where many of those are listed - hopefully they will join in the future.
> JFC. Have you ever actually read any Stallman?? It's literally on the damn sidebar.
I understand where you're coming from but "free as in beer" gets "free as in freedom" in the front door, particularly with people who see software and computers as tools. It's an effective Trojan Horse especially when dealing with people relying on software for income like photographers or illustrators.
Had more than a few people start using libre software because "it doesn't cost" and then realizing they could change the software or actually talk to the developers and get their voices heard (unlike with commercial software where profit is king) a lot easier and start looking for more libre (or at least open source, which while not ideally Stallman aligned is at least better than Adobe IMO) solutions.
As others have pointed out the "no cost"side means devs don't get paid. Luckily that's changing with things like LibrePay or (in a pinch) Patreon that allow for recurring donations to projects or devs. Unfortunately Darktable doesn't take donations directly but one of the mains devs has a LibrePay: https://liberapay.com/aurelienpierre/
Liberapay satisfies both conditions, so if you're feeling valiant and want to become the pioneer you can do so here ;) But honestly it's not something that is going to make or break the show - as the report says, it's still very much a labour of love anyway ^_^
Re: WAB - I honestly don't know. I guess we'll get a data point when "Roddenberry fields forever" (another 3-part episode) comes out ;)
I don't like linking to donations too often as I don't really need them and so have no need to shill for it. But if you're really interested we're available on Liberapay.
Not being able to receive donations or payments without self-doxing is probably one of the biggest barriers to entry for people considering making content online or even asking for help.
> PayPal allows a donor to see the name and email address of the recipient, and Stripe may expose the recipient's phone number, so creators who do not want to reveal their identities should not use these payment processors, unless they have carefully configured their accounts to only leak nonsensitive information (a business name instead of the creator's name, a dedicated email address and phone number instead of the creator's personal contact details).
So basically everything that relies on paypal or Stripe won't work unless you can afford the trouble of a burner number and establishing a business.
Check out the developers in the Free Software community on Liberapay. Bonus: Liberapay itself is OSS.
Here is possible to pledge a donation to the project: https://liberapay.com/on/github/wine-staging
If someday they create an account and link their GitHub account, the donations will automatically start.
Heh it hasn't been merged yet!
But sure, here are the coffee funds:
- https://liberapay.com/ngraham/donate
- https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=Y279422B3LMRE
:)
…which in term doesn't mean he dislikes colored people :)
Patreon has other reasons to be not an option (twitter-ads, facebook, google-analytics,…)
If I support free work - I want to use free tools for that - just like liberapay [fr] (thanks NewPipe-Team for letting me discover this great platform!)
PayPal: I get your point - but have to say that there's a significant difference: Patreon is a proprietary Platform for fans & creators while PayPal being a payment processor. Can you name me an open pp which deals with normal banks and not crypto?
It's an entirely different system; you could set up a mirror, if you wanted, but I don't know that anybody has.
PeerTube works on the principle of federation. Instead of a channel being called agadmator, it's called, say, (unless you're on chesstube.org, in which case you can just drop the @chesstube.org part), and it can be accessed from any other PeerTube instance (so long as they're not blocking each other).
This means that, when a PeerTube instance starts pulling these shenanigans (and it will happen; it always does), people can switch to a different one gradually; they won't have to co-ordinate.
What's better, you can follow PeerTube channels from a Mastodon or Friendica account, or really anything in the ActivityPub Fediverse; you don't need a separate PeerTube account with a separate PeerTube feed.
I think the best strategy is for channels to upload their videos to both YouTube and PeerTube, and advertise their PeerTube to their viewers. If they care about their viewers switching, they can put videos up on PeerTube an hour / a day earlier, or have PeerTube-exclusive videos, but mirroring is enough. That way, when something gets taken down for a stupid reason like this, it'll still be on PeerTube and they can point their viewers towards it; additionally, they won't have to deal with the whole "appeal, get rejected, copyright strike" or the bullshit algorithm.
Downsides: no ads. That's good for you, and imo ultimately good for everyone, but in the short term it's effectively a pay cut for people without sponsors. (By the way, I recommend Liberapay for sponsorship, if you don't have sponsor-exclusive rewards; they don't take a cut.)
The Patreon website/service in particular requires running code that you can't read or control on your own computer. It also forbids users from donating anonymously. If JQ would accept donations, I would appreciate the option of using a more ethical platform such as Liberapay.
You can find a lot of software projects on Liberapay, which is a FOSS alternative to Patreon with a much higher cut for the project for European users (it has to do with the way the VAT works): https://liberapay.com/explore/organizations .
You can find software projects on Patreon, too, including elementary OS itself.
Open Movies. The were able to channelize funding into an great films which in turn helped PR and development.
GIMP is having it's first open made.
Sadly it's still unknown among the masses and the funding Ilis low but they are going ahead with it. A bunch of improvement came in due to it as well.
Donate
https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/
https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot
Follow zemarmot on twitter and support!
In case you seek the same I did some time before to place my donation: Syncthing donations to generic development and infrastructure costs can be done here https://syncthing.net/donations/ and the Android development mainly done by Catfriend1 regarding the fork here https://liberapay.com/~1534877 Definitely all contributors and maintainers do a good job keeping Syncthing healthy and granting new features :-)
Liberpay is great, Lineageos already have 7.69€/week they could claim.
https://liberapay.com/on/github/lineageos/
It'd also be cool if they were on https://opencollective.com/, especially since they're not a non-profit.
So um, I hope this isn't selling out but uhm I have created a liberapay account so anyone who would like to support me, you guys can visit my profile here: https://liberapay.com/rationalariel/
For now I can't open it up for donation yet due to me not having anything for a payment method until I'm 18, which is probably about 36-37 days left
Anyway, thank you guys for paying attention to me, I appreciate it <3
Also, if the trippy stuff is a bit hurtful for your eyes please tell me so I can make a comfortable to look at version
Sifive CEO estimated:
>If last year he "thought that cellphones are five years away and servers are 10 years away, I would say that now that cellphones and laptops are two years away, and servers are five years away,"
> HOW CAN I start to make it happen at least for myself?
If you want you can do technical work, you can work on the debian port, the better the software ecosystem for RISC-V will be the greater the incentive to create hardware for it (firefox and librsvg don't have debian risc-v packages due to Rust risc-v support not being there yet).
If you want to donate, the best options as far as i can tell are open source hardware association, the FOSSI foundation, and lkcl (which recently got a grant for working on a libre risc-v GPU).
Instead of google ads for revenue, perhaps it might be worth looking into Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/) so you have a steady amount of recurring donations (I absolutely hate ads, they clutter up a website).
Also, thank you for making this resource for adults, as a 24 year old with Aspergers, it is hard to find information not directed towards kids.
> https://liberapay.com/privacytools.io
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I agree. It might be safer to use a less-popular alternative like Liberapay. The safest option though is to accept cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. That's what a lot of piracy sites use to receive donations.
The links don't work because there are some invisible characters on the end of them or something. You can see this by converting them to ASCII, for example. This link should work: https://liberapay.com/privacytools.io/donate
Yep - that's still the way things are which is unfortunate to an extent. My biggest priority is helping them hire Pedro hence I'm pushing the Patreon.
And as we discussed last month, it'd be great to see something like Liberapay take off, which is open source and run by a nonprofit. And unlike other crowdfunding platforms that fund themselves by taking a cut from people's donations to campaigns, they fund themselves via their own crowdfunding campaign on Liberapay.
Yeah I though it could come down to something like that. I'd really like to see Liberapay take off so people could do recurring contributions on an open source platform that doesn't take a cut.
Great! Is there a way to fund your work or at least buy you a drink? Like Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/on/github/imaami
Gotta spread the mindset of funding our great libre software :)
Link to pledge recurring funding to the dev: https://liberapay.com/on/github/imirkin
The idea is that if enough people pledge, that will instigate the dev to create an account on Liberapay and link it to their GitHub account. Then all the pledges will activate.
https://liberapay.com/archiveis
would be happy to accept your donations...
They don't allow people to disable archiving, and they give you an easy way to download the page so you can have an offline copy so it still exists even if they go donw.
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't really been looking for donations, but enough people have mentioned it, so here are two options: https://liberapay.com/rattlesnakeos/ or bitcoin 17GHmnK3fyw9TBngvaM8Veh37UR65rmvZS.
I would guess that when possible, option 1. (funding the maintainers/contributors directly) would be the most cost-effective in most scenarios. I consider option 2. to be a subset of option 1., since technical documentation _should_ be part of the development of a healthy software project. Whether the higher priority would be on the documentation or the code obviously depends on the project.
Option 3. would be a good option too when there is no specific objective; the money ultimately goes to finance development anyway, but I would guess some of it is absorbed for the administrative tasks of the foundation itself. Depending on whether or not such administrative tasks would be better served by the original donor organization obviously depends on the context. For example, for some projects going through the associated foundation rather than straight to individual developers would be the more proper approach.
I'm not particularly fond of the idea of having to vote multiple times a month, unless I changed my mind since the last time I chose. In this sense, the recurrent donation mechanism set up by e.g. Liberapay is a good idea: you choose how to distribute your funds, but you can change that at a later time.
> €1,760.18 was transferred last week between 1,701 users.
Ouch, that's super sad (from the Liberapay homepage).
Anyways, I wanted to like and support people/projects on Liberapay, but found that there are much fewer people there, and then of course there was the issue with them losing their payment processor in mid 2018. Is anyone using Liberpay? Which projects/users are you supporting?
There are definitely some open source crowdfunding sites. https://liberapay.com/ is one, https://salt.bountysource.com/ is one, and I know there are more out there. Some projects just use Patreon since it's already a popular platform.
There are definitely some open source crowdfunding sites. https://liberapay.com/ is one, https://salt.bountysource.com/ is one, and I know there are more out there. Some projects just use Patreon since it's already a popular platform.
For anyone reading this, archive.is is probably the highest trafficked archiving site on reddit, and only receives few donations per week (and definitely not enough to run on donations alone). If you can, you can support the creator on Liberapay in order to make sure we have this service for the future.
Similar but I skip the ridiculously well funded ones like Wikipedia and the Linux Foundation.
I use Liberapay to support poorly funded projects which I consider strategic to FOSS.
Examples would be FreeCAD & Matrix.org
> Other than the two I have mentioned, do you think there would be any other potential hazards? I am going to scale this up to a production level server with multiple nodes ( independent computers ) so I just wanted to make sure.
I've never done any GPU work so I can't say for sure. If I were you, I'd try to allocate the GPU tensor in a middleware to minimize the amount of changes you need to make to dramatiq itself. Also, if there's a way to monkeypatch multiprocessing with torch, then it might make sense to include an executable for torch support directly in dramatiq (like we do for gevent).
> how does it perform for multi-node servers, each node with at least 32 cores?
It depends on your workloads, but for anything non-trivial dramatiq should be fast enough that its overhead should not be noticeable compared to the work your task are doing.
> p.s. what you've done is really awesome. I want to donate to keep dramatiq alive. Are you interested in opening up channels for donations?
Thank you! If your company would like to support the project, then they can buy a Tidelift subscription. Otherwise, if you or your company would like to support me directly then you can set up a donation via liberapay here (I just signed up today so the account is completely new).
Liberapay is an option some already prefer https://liberapay.com/
100% of donations go directly to the person you're supporting.
The service funds itself through donations to its own Liberapay account.
Basically, they take their own medicine.
It's not always true, but people with a patreons often have a goal of going full time (patreon allows you to easily define goals with their descriptions, which is something that unfortunately does not work as well yet with Liberapay ). You can try this list. but i can see it misses people, e.g. it is missing KDE nate graham and drew devault (the author of this post).
Maybe it will be good to have a page on gitlab or some other wiki with just people/organisations looking for funding for full time work.
a que se dedicaban, si no es demaciado preguntar?
ja, ja, ja, por el podcast entiendo que trabajar con software libre de poder, se puede, pero, aun no he visto la reseta magica para vivir haciendo (exclusivamente) software libre. Aun a tios como esr o el de liberapay les cuesta llegar a sus modestas aspiraciones monetarias
You could make a LIberapay team. Users can donate to the team, and individual devs can receive money from them. But Tox never actually needs to hold the money.
https://liberapay.com/about/teams
See https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data/ for an example.
In case it helps it improve more steadily, I donate a small amount of money to NewPipe monthly through their LiberaPay account, which is a rather convenient way, especially if one has SEPA transfers free.
For start, we need a decent game engine, like Godot. And it already has Patreon(https://www.patreon.com/godotengine)/[Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/on/github/godotengine) page.
>> You are here
Next, we need a decent lead individual and a project to kickstart and begin throwing money at it.
Next, we need to spread the word about this campaing and if it's successful there's a high chance other studios can chime in.
I'd wish creators would just create accounts on few different donations platforms, so people have choice and Patreon – competition.
I'm going to advocate Liberapay, as it's non-profit, but seeing any platform other than Patreon would be really nice.
You didn't read where the OP links to? https://liberapay.com/archiveis
> archiveis receives €32.97 per week from 25 patrons.
Which is 1 euro and 1 patron more than it was just prior to your comment, so it's quite obviously you.
And as I've said, who donates is not what I care about, but what the money is spent on.
Previously from VICE:
Dear GamerGate: Please Stop Stealing Our Shit
>If you want to read video game news on Kotaku, or IGN, or hell, even Motherboard, you could go to those publications’ websites, peruse the content there, and help pay for the work by passively consuming advertisements. Or, you could go to Archive.today, a site that disgruntled GamerGate members are using to illegally divert traffic from websites the movement says it’s protesting.
>To do that, all you’ve got to do is grab a link, go to www.Archive.today (formerly known as Archive.is) or another internet archive site, paste it in, and you’ve immediately got an ad-free and shareable copy of the copyrighted content. As far as piracy goes, it’s one of the easiest things you could possibly do, and the site’s copies are often just as readable and just as fast to load as the original.
>As a method of protest, it makes sense to try to attack a site’s pocketbook. Sites like Archive.today have been used by climate change deniers to share and criticize links to popular climate news websites, for example.
>But, well, recently, it’s been all GamerGate. A quick scan of the subreddit being used to spread GamerGate news shows more than 500 links to websites that have been copied over to a third party website in a specific attempt to divert advertising revenue from those sites. A scan of 8Chan, the image board being used to organize, shows the same.
>Web traffic analytics company Alexa notes that 13 percent of Archive.today’s traffic comes from reddit (the most of any site), and a search of reddit shows that the majority of its links to Archive.today come from GamerGaters. A Twitter search for “Archive.today” links shows the same.
A reminder to donate to Archive.is: https://liberapay.com/archiveis/donate
Heil Mecha-Hitler
I hope ill notice that topic too when you directly pitch your idea to Inkscape devs and they actually start the kickstarter (or crowdsupply or whatever) and ill get to pitch in some euros again.
Alternatively they could go for the Liberapay/Patreon model.