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Fair question. Historically, there have been few people hired to work on PHP. A lot of work on PHP is done by volunteers. There are currently two people hired to work on PHP (that I know of). One of them is Dmitry Stogov who mostly does work on performance. The other is Nikita Popov, hired by Jetbrains, who has been the driving force behind PHP for the last 5+ years. Sadly, he's recently decided to focus his work on LLVM which prompted the PHP foundation to be created literally just a few days ago. https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation Anyway, enums were actually implemented by me and specified by Larry Garfield and me. I'm hoping to be working on PHP professionally very very soon.

My favorite is rust-analyzer: https://opencollective.com/rust-analyzer

It's critical tooling that I use when writing and reading in Rust. When it doesn't work (which occasionally happens and it's not always RA's fault), I notice right away because it's so central to my workflow.

And then there are also folks that work on critical libraries that accept contributions, like /u/dtolnay: https://github.com/sponsors/dtolnay

I don't think you're really meant to. Looking at their Donate page, the vast, vast majority of donations come from companies, as is standard in large open source projects.

But really, I don't think it's that strange of a notion, working as a maintainer on Babel requires much greater skill than the median developer.

Hi all,

I am the developer who started the ImageSharp library and it's really good to see a vigorous dialogue surrounding our decision, a little negative for my tastes, but hey, them's the breaks.

I made a mistake when I published the original blog post and omitted some vitally important text (closed the tab by accident when composing, thought it was saved) regarding the license changes. I've updated the post but I'll comment here also.

The commercial license model we are considering has two paths.

1. A subscription license, per developer, per year with unlimited usage. This would be renewable for a maximum of 3 years before you automatically receive a perpetual license for unlimited developers and usage.

2. A one time payment to receive an perpetual license for unlimited developers and usage.

We will offer free commercial licenses for not-for-profit organizations and cheap licenses for indie developers.

As I said in the post, we're gonna be cheap, almost painfully so, in order to hopefully not drive away users. We're talking less than most people would spend on coffee per year.

We didn't make this decision lightly. In a perfect world we would get corporate sponsorship and continue with the license we have but that simply does not seem to be on the radar.

Over the last few years we have been gratefully accepting donations from a generous few totalling up to $3,515.61. I'm sure you would agree that this isn't enough for us to continue to dedicate the time and resources to continue to maintain the library; graphics libraries are a very difficult subject to tackle and require a lot of intensive study to develop and maintain.

If you want to change this situation, please help there. https://opencollective.com/imagesharp

Cheers

James

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Jellyfin is never going to add paid features like this. It's directly against all of our wishes for the project. We do hope to get intro skipping implemented in the future, but it's a big task and the current state of the database makes it nearly impossible. I would expect more big features like this to start coming down the pipeline after we hit version 11.

We're all volunteers, and none of us ever see a dime from the project, therefore it makes no sense to try to monetize things like this. The only way contributors get paid is if somebody donates directly to them via patreon/github sponsors. All funds for Jellyfin as a project go through OpenCollective and are used strictly for project related costs (hosting, API subscriptions, test devices, etc).

Thanks!

(EDIT: replying here for visibility):

Sizzy is on OpenCollective now :)

I'm not planning to ruin it with ads or any weird marketing tricks, so if you're planning to use for your apps, consider donating a small amount so the project can keep running (if you can afford it ofc)!

Thanks!

As the author of the mentioned Cabal <code>--enable-executable-static</code> functionality I'm glad my schemes are finally panning out, nyeh heh heh.

Good job!

Also, a shoutout to the backers of the static-haskell-nix OpenCollective, that have funded the CI infrastructure for testing tens of thousands of statically built Haskell packages, and to the customers of FP Complete that put money into the initial development. Looks like it's paying back in more than one way.

So, if you want to learn more about the project, the guys who made it, have suggestions, or want to support them in any manner, here's their info.

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThisIsDIM
• Discord: discord.gg/mtFqKbk
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyItemManager/

If you wish to financially support the project:

• Funding and support: https://opencollective.com/dim

I am in no away affiliated with DIM, just figured since you appreciate it so much, you might enjoy the above resources.

Up now !

https://opencollective.com/flybywire

Keep in mind this is 100% optional and does not grant you access to any additional content. It goes 100% towards development of the mod, access to simulators and other projects/software. All expenses we make are transparent and will be listed on that page.

I am personally donating monthly to gtk-rs just because I want areweguiyet to gain some traction. I'd also be interested in rust as a whole, but until there's a good way to do that, I'm looking at specific projects.

Most of the tools you're presumably blaming (Babel, Webpack, React Hot Loader, Redux, Redux DevTools) are actually maintained by volunteers in their free time. I’m sure their state could be better if even 5% of the people complaining about them took time to contribute, whether with bug fixes, triaging, writing documentation and blog articles, helping beginners in issues, creating examples, and funding (yes, some of these projects, like webpack, actually accept money donations).

If you're speaking about React, it doesn't need a single tool, you can just drop a <script> on the page and write ES5 code if that's your preference.

That said I appreciate your fine point and will consider sharing less of my work with the community.

From the original dev of AnkiDroid: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/c6a2bp/why_is_ankidroid_free/eseppqi/?context=3

From Damien (created Anki and AnkiMobile): https://faqs.ankiweb.net/why-does-ankimobile-cost-more-than-a-typical-mobile-app.html

Personally: right now, donations on the AnkiDroid side don't regularly cover monthly dev expenses for volunteer AnkiDroid contributors ($10/h, & some decline to invoice). The syncing infrastructure costs a /lot/ more than this, and there needs to be a revenue source from somewhere (I expect the average med student will use 3GB+ of transfer/storage).

AnkiDroid's always been free and is made by separate developers, we all believe in free/open source software and I don't see this changing any time soon.

As for AnkiMobile, it's well worth the money (I can't put a price on how much value I've gained from Anki over the years that I've used it). It's the only way to support the creator and infrastructure, and it keeps the environment (Anki/AnkiWeb) free for those who can't afford it.

In this case—the Select2 library—it ensures that you don't have to do the work of handling the hundreds of edge cases, styling inconsistencies between browsers, and accessibility. Regarding the last one, think keyboard navigability, screen reader compatibility, etc. Here's a GitHub issue thread that spans five years of work to make it more accessible. I don't know about your team, but I certainly don't have the equivalent of five years worth of back-and-forth between testers and developers that can be dedicated to a vanilla JS solution just for this one dropdown menu on a site.

Bonus, here's a list of all the contributors who effectively have thus "helped" make each of my projects I use it on: https://opencollective.com/select2/contributors.svg

Can you make it in plain JS? Absolutely! Should you? Not unless you're porting it for the good of everyone else.

Every time I use DIM, I am reminded that I really need to donate to them making Destiny immeasurably more fun to play.

For anyone else who feels the same: Here's where you can donate to the awesome people that make DIM.

Anki Desktop/AnkiWeb/AnkiMobile: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ankimobile-flashcards/id373493387 - buy the app for a friend/maybe host a giveaway on the subreddit

AnkiDroid: https://opencollective.com/ankidroid

I've personally got a Patreon/GitHub sponsors (linked on my profile)

Not upset at all. I've just found that saying "we can't" often isn't a satisfactory answer for a lot of people, so I tend to default to longer winded explanations with a lot of the logic behind why we can't do a thing.

OpenCollective is less about paying people and more about reimbursing for expenses. Everything we spend money on as a project is recorded there. For example, looking through this page, you can see lots of monthly expenses for various API services we use or web hosting, but once in a while there's a charge for a client device. Obviously we don't always have access to every device that we need to be able to develop for, so sometimes a team member will purchase a device and get reimbursed for it. As mentioned above, Roku is one of those, I believe there's also been a few androitv devices, there's a recent apple TV purchase, etc.

One of the Jellyfin folks here.

Jellyfin is 100% free and is dedicated to staying that way. We accept donations at https://opencollective.com/jellyfin, but these only go to necessary costs (domain registration, hosting costs, development licenses, etc). It's entirely volunteer run.

Official clients so far:

• Built in web UI
• AndroidTV/FireTV
• Android
• iOS
• Kodi addon
• Roku (on the official store as of yesterday)

In addition, we have several third party clients that provide some different functionality

• Infuse (AppleTV)
• MrMc (AppleTV)
• Mopidy extension (Audio client)
• MPV-Shim (Use Jellyfin as a backend for MPV)
• Gelli (Android based music only client)

There's apps in progress for smart TVs, but they're not polished enough to be submitted to the stores for review yet

Probably a few others that I'm forgetting right now and somebody will remind me of, as well as support for DLNA targets if we don't have a dedicated client yet

1. SEO

Nuxt can be set up to server-render (or even statically render) pages, meta description and so on can be added to the head. So this isn't really a valid concern if your team is aware this is a requirement.

1. Routing

Nuxt should be handling this, not sure what the codebase looks like (there's tons of ways to shoot yourself in the foot but it can be done correctly).

1. ES2016

This is the latest ECMA standard, might take you a bit to get used to but it's the future of JavaScript and mostly allows you to write better code faster.

1. Long-term support of Vue

Vue is set up to be sustainable (ish), if you want to make sure of this, donate to Evan You's patreon and the Vue open collective.

Nikita already made clear that generics probably aren't coming, so him leaving doesn't make any difference in that regard (https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/j65968/ama_with_the_phpstorm_team_from_jetbrains_on/g7zg9mt/)

Luckily there's PHP foundation (https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation) which I think has a good potential of succeeding.

Aww, thanks my friend :) I am fiscally sponsored The Open Collective Foundation. Here is our collective. Don't mind that $350,000 project. That is endgame stuff. I have not set down and created any smaller projects because, as you can see by the latest post, brakes...

Much obliged though. I'm just warming up. 2022 is going to be wild 🔥🔥🔥

In addition to what the others have said, you can also donate to Ankidroid (the Android app is made by different developers): https://opencollective.com/ankidroid

I don't have a way to buy the iOS app so I donated to them instead

One of the Jellyfin guys here. We've been pretty transparent about it (like we try to do with all things).

Their initial offer was $2500/month. Immediately following this there was a followup offer of $650/month without attribution or $500/month with attribution (basically just saying that our data comes from TVDB). To put this into context of the project, all our finances are available here https://opencollective.com/jellyfin

Now, supposedly there was a miscommunication and they were expecting us to make a counteroffer. But when one party's "low" offer is 1.5x higher than the entire revenue of the other party, there's not much way to do negotiations without somebody walking away feeling insulted.

If users want to use TVDB for their Jellyfin servers the current plan is to allow them to enter their own API key.

> Result: Pure hell for the Window users.

For another perspective, I've been using the VS Code plugin on Windows for some time and it hasn't been pure hell for me. Buggy? Yes, but usable. FYI, the D Language Foundation is currently raising money to put toward development of the plugin. Improving the Windows experience will be one of the goals.

The XRP Ledger needs community support, and XRPL-Labs is stepping up - please support them:
https://opencollective.com/xrpl-adopt-a-node
Tweet thread here: https://twitter.com/XRPLLabs/status/1466753233158914056

Let's make a bet. If Thomas uses this money on fancy self enrichment you win, he is a conman as you so confidently say, and I give you a bak tripel karmeliet.

If on the other hand, the money is used for activism, blood testing, legal costs, posters, flyers etc, as Thomas and his dastardly companion Nele claim, then I win the Tripel Karmeliet.

The income and expenses are all public so we will find out in the coming months: https://opencollective.com/pfonds#category-BUDGET

It's the code source for opencollective.com, a platform that many open-source projects (such as Babel or Webpack) use to receive financial contributions from individuals and organizations (disclaimer: I work for Open Collective).

Being more than 4 years old, the code obviously contains some debt but we do our best to stay up to date with the latest best practices, and everything we do is open source (including the API).

It would be nice if you opened up the accounting a little bit. For now we can take your word for it, but it would build a lot of trust if you did the budgeting on https://opencollective.com/ or something like that.

We really, really don’t promote it very much:

https://opencollective.com/jellyfin

I think in the main README, it’s listed as the “backers” badge.

The important thing to note - donating doesn’t make anything happen faster or sooner, we’re literally only using it to cover operating costs, which are pretty modest so far.

Yeah, you can contribute to Fody using opencollective if you like that website https://opencollective.com/fody

Your attitude towards OSS maintainers is what hinder OSS. You should think about that for a minute.

&gt; license incompatible footnotes

Fake news. Go read the MIT license, it doesn't say anything about support.

Yeah. But probably don't try to get into the business of giving organizations incidental small grants, like this organisation in The Netherlands. They fund all kinds of progressive & socialist causes in need of some money, which is nice, but it's all basically <€500 grants with lots of administration tied to it. As a result, over half of their money is spent on staff to make it happen, lol, and it takes quite some time to submit a request and all.

What is more worthwhile, in my opinion, is to structurally fund certain networks or organisations. If they don't have a space to comfortably organize in, renting one for them can make a major difference in my experience. I was mostly involved with climate activism in The Netherlands over the past few years, and the groups I've seen that grew the fastest & most sustainably are the ones that had a physical, accessible base. Having a spot that you know you can access without any hesitation just makes such a difference and allows you to easily set up meetings, create art, organise events, et cetera.

Also, just knowing that you have a bit of money to spend as an organization makes a huge difference. It's nice not having to worry about the little amount of money you might have to spend on supplies and whatever, instead just being able to focus on the essentials.

One final, random comment: perhaps Open Collective is an interesting system for managing money.

I donate time first to a number of projects, but I've also bought Ardour and donate to Signal. I'd just like to flag OpenCollective, which is a great unified platform through which you can support projects.

https://opencollective.com/discover?show=open+source&amp;sort=

Look into molly.im. They got a Matrix room where you can ask all your questions and make suggestions for development. Its developer has said in the past he'd be open to swap MobileCoin implementation for Monero, in-app. Feel free to donate to their open collective initiative here.

Agree. On top of that, isn't jellyfin a FOSS version of Emby? Which is a paid product. Both Jellyfin and emby have the same interface and I can't imagine paying for it. I do personally run jellyfin for family videos, and havedonated to them in the past, but that's only because I don't want to install another instance of plex. I guess if you're happy with it, then what the hell, just don't worry about the alternatives.

It doesnt really look finished to me : https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#comparison (and you have to pay for new features (like ESM Support : https://opencollective.com/axios#category-CONTRIBUTE)

>I think we need funding models where the money comes directly from the user

I think that this is starting to become more popular with things like OpenCollective or Github sponsors. Effectively taking the Patreon model of funding projects. Lots of people donating a few dollars.

But I think there can be a bit of a gap between the funding and end product there. When the donation channel is set up for a specific project, it makes sense. But often the channel is set up for the developer who maintains the project. Which raises a couple issues:

1. Is this supporting all the maintainers, or just one person
2. Is donating to this person going to improve Project XYZ that I use.

I'm not saying that people necessarily abuse these donation channels. But they don't really answer the main question of "what am I paying for?". And as a result, I think they don't raise as much money as they could.

As a slightly different funding model, I just launched an issue bounty platform (rysolv.com). Which has a very specific funding focus (i.e. solve this issue). But probably lacks some of the broad support that maintainers need (i.e. just cash).

It doesn't look like something which requires a full-time job, tbh.

It would be better to move these small-but-important projects under control of some organization or a bigger project.

E.g. babel has pretty significant budget and corporate sponsors: https://opencollective.com/babel#section-budget

> The one thing that I would suggest considering for some point down the line is setting up a way to fund development beyond just infrastructure.

Are funds contributed here only for infrastructure?

> This exact point could also be made to support the 'fund more projects'-standpoint: with lower amounts someone can continue their project like they probably did before: as a side-project (but with the promotion within and recognition of the community). With higher amounts it becomes necessary to carve out a substantial amount of time - this requires a flexible day-job (and/or family).

No argument from me. :-)

> Too harsh indeed IMO: despite the amount increase, current funding is far from a real (ie durable, sustainable) solution to fund opensource work: it's limited in time, amount and only well-established opensource projects are eligible/selected. This means that with (hopefully) increasing funds the choice between more projects or more funding is inevitable, and a good discussion to have (and it's good to read that varying grants are in the pipeline).

Fingers crossed. We're definitely moving in the right direction, but there's a long journey ahead.

> With that being said, I'm grateful for Clojurists Together (& supporting individuals/companies) and I'm now heading over to https://opencollective.com/cider to donate the equivalent of a commercial IDE license. Thanks for creating and maintaining a great Clojure editor bozhidarb!

Thanks and you're welcome!

> Whatever they did this past year where a bunch of new team members joined the fray to chip in is working.

Sean busted his ass to bring awareness to individuals and companies to donate to the project so that people who contribute can be rewarded for it...

Thanks for your support! While we can't accept donations from players, you can certainly donate to Panda3D, the game engine that powers all Toontown servers. Your donation helps them make the game engine better, which will benefit all Toontown servers!

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https://opencollective.com/panda3d

There used to be tiers, but seems like they removed them recently from https://opencollective.com/privacytools#section-contribute

Thus you can see many new companies there, which are not included on sponsor page.

I tried Jellyfin a couple months back and really like the interface and the fact that you can change the look and feel plus many other QoL features over Plex but I had real performance issues, lots of freezes and issue with transcoding on Docker which I don't have on Plex on Docker.

I hope it improves and will be going back to it often in the hopes it does. Props to the dev. I have contributed even though I don't currently use it. If you want to contribute go here. https://opencollective.com/jellyfin

We already have some amazing financial backers on GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective! Longer term, we're looking at mitigating costs via storage solutions that would allow users to share drive space to help contribute, something like IPFS for example.

A big part of keeping the project free forever is to switch Icosa to a federated system (like Mastodon), so different groups can spin up their own instances to host their own data. Museums for example, could host their own curated collection! Instances and APIs can talk to each other so that all data is still accessible. Never again shall we be subject to the whims of big tech.

https://opencollective.com/ is an example I can think of a tool that seems like it could be used for a community ran NGO.

Allowing for the collection, managing and spending on money with an opensource app. My draw back was the fact that multi person approval was not implemented yet github issue related.

The other option I personally looked into was the use multi-signature crypto wallets, but was recommended against due to it still being relatively new, untested.

Hi there, I am Gregory Engels, one of the members of the Freedom to Share ECI organizational committee.

I would like to thank u/Hattori_Hans for posting this info here about the initiative. To let you know, the post here has caused a rise in signatures of 20% in just under 23 hours. Meaning we clearly need to work on our press and social media coverage :)

We are looking for supporting organisations who would like to join the campaign and write about the ECI, maybe even include our signature widget into their site, in return, we'll add their logo to our supporter page.

And, we also got a couple of new donations on our OpenCollective site https://opencollective.com/freedom-to-share

that all is just great!

Thanks to everyone who signed.

Use the 'sync' functionality and sync to Anki Desktop (we respect privacy, so we don't back up or store any data without consent, it's painful when people tell us they lost their phones/data and there's nothing we can do).

Long press a deck, go to 'Deck Options'. Set the reviews/day to 9999 and do every review that you can.

Have some time getting familiar with the app (at least a few weeks), then learn about 'Card Types' and how to make multiple cards from one note.

Use it every day, enough to feel like you're learning, not enough to hate doing it. If you feel overwhelmed, reduce the number of new cards you review everyday.

https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20rules

Press "Help" and read the manual from time to time, there's always more to know.

Enable Gestures in the settings.

Once you've used it for half a year or so and feel it's provided you value, send a small donation our way: https://opencollective.com/ankidroid

Hi! Thanks for the tip about mobile formatting - we'll have to look into how to make the tables show up better. I'll try to answer your questions the best I can:

1. We are not a 501c3. There's lots of reasons why organizations would choose to move away from a traditional 501c3 model. Dean Spade's book "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)" offers an analysis of the difference between mutual aid and charity. I'd definitely recommend it if you're interested in this topic!
2. For records of how our money is distributed, you can see all our transactions listed on our OpenCollective page (click Budget and then Expenses). We don't share personal details of who is receiving funds because of privacy concerns for our neighbors. We're trying to find good ways to balance transparent accounting with privacy - both are really important and we're probably continually going to be figuring out what the best balance is.
3. You are welcome to donate to some of the established charities listed on our website! Our neighbors rely on a network of care and support and we are certainly not the only group trying to contribute to that support.

Thanks for sharing your stimulus check with charity orgs and local businesses. I'm sure that will make a big difference to our neighbors too.

In solidarity, BCMA

Yes. Not only is it free, it's also open-source. That means that the source code is available and you can modify it and redistribute it to your heart's content provided you release any changes you make to it as open-source too (see the GPL 3 license for more details).

You can donate to the project here: https://opencollective.com/veloren

Currently, donations go towards infrastructure such as hosting the website, public server, and other such services.

Very excited for this release! In fact, I decided to sponsor the project a few days ago - https://opencollective.com/prettier-ruby

If you love Ruby and want to see continued improvement in Ruby tools, a few bucks goes a long way.

The short answer is that we don't need/want it to make money off of this.

The entire point of it is because the community (and us) wants merch. Our primary funds are available on OpenCollective and as you can see, we're doing fairly well there. There's no reason for us to use teespring or increase our margins on redbubble just to have it sit there without a real use. If there ever comes a time when we need to change how we raise funds, we can revist it. But for now community donations are more than keeping us online, and that's all we need.

Manjaro has zero play on the server side and a fraction of the usage of Ubuntu while giving away basically its only product for free. Anyone who depends purely on voluntary donations isn't apt to be rich.

CommunityBridge has 13000 usd in donations for manjaro. https://funding.communitybridge.org/projects/manjaro

Opencollective reports 6000 euros aprox 7000 usd.

https://opencollective.com/manjaro#section-budget

The company may have other sources of funding not herein included but perhaps this may offer perspective.

For individual PHP projects https://opencollective.com/search?q=php seems to be provide a better search engine then patreon.

patreon has projects that opencollective doesn't, like xdebug, doctrine, phpseclib, etc, but opencollective's search appears to be better.

Back up for me too.

Mailing YouTube will not fix the real issue, even if they respond. We need a collectively organized video host solution for left tube that mirrors YouTube. Perhaps we could form an open collective and fund our own mirror to host our videos?

https://opencollective.com/

> https://opencollective.com/

That's interesting, but it's almost like Patreon where they charge a flat 5% on online donations where Liberapay varies on the user/transaction type and as quoted on the site "below 5% in all cases" [quote source]

It does have some money. (Compare Webpack.) I guess Webpack is more widely used (e.g. many TypeScript projects also use it), but perhaps just as important is that they're also spending more effort on marketing (blog posts, etc.).

Of course, it's also not just a matter of being able to pay maintainers, but also of maintainers wanting to work full-time on that maintenance - I'm not sure what Babel's situation is in that regard.

That will absolutely be met with violent force. When the Fourth Precinct struggle turned violent, the occupation of the lobby was already over, and people were linking arms outside of the precinct. This won't dissuade us, mind you- we're used to being met with violence. This is Minneapolis. We drink tear gas.

What you're proposing is well within the bounds of useful protest tactics, and these tactics are widely used in the Twin Cities. We've been having sustained struggles against police brutality here for over a decade, with the murders of Terrance Franklin, Jamar Clark, Philando Castille, Marcus Golden, George Floyd, Dante Wright... I'm leaving out a lot of names because even as someone who was involved in those protests for many years, I just can't remember all of them. It's so many.

I appreciate that you're thinking through these tactics and giving advice, but the Twin Cities has a deeply rooted community of support networks who do things like provide food and heaters and stuff, who provide medical care, who do legal defense work, who do research, etc etc etc. It's definitely not all just people wilding out on the front lines fighting the cops- it's a very broad movement with a wide diversity of tactics and a wide range of roles for people to plug into.

Speaking of which, if you want to fund street medics, Freedom Street Health is a great place to send money.

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>I'm always sad answering this question because you USED to be able to via Google Poly, but it got shut down.
>
>A replacement is in the works (it's called Icosa Gallery) but they haven't finished the integration yet for actually viewing things in VR, and they currently need funding to make that happen.
>
>Alternatively, you can view people's VR art in VRChat and the Museum of Other Realities, but I don't have my own work on either of these platforms.

I'm always sad answering this question because you USED to be able to via Google Poly, but it got shut down.

A replacement is in the works (it's called Icosa Gallery) but they haven't finished the integration yet for actually viewing things in VR, and they currently need funding to make that happen.

Alternatively, you can view people's VR art in VRChat and the Museum of Other Realities, but I don't have my own work on either of these platforms.

Here, let me fix the title for you:

Unfortunately the only member of HumLow (Articles Of Incorporation) and this foundation, myself, Joseph Truax -as you can see clearly in those very legal documents and link - decided to allow you into the Slack, where for some reason, you believed that made you members. But in order to be a member, you have to be voted in. Do you remember being voted in?

Luckily due to this being solely owned by myself (until I find people that have earned their space by putting people first and not democracy), I will have control back soon, and then I can clear you rabble rousers out and move on. You simply got lucky that I could not revoke Dan's mod status in time. And for some reason, my very high profile main is locked out completely, which is curious 🤔I wonder how many of you will be removed for TOS violations when the admin get up? Something fishy is going on.

Anyway, I'm be thankful for you for doing this at 2800 members, and not 100,000 members. You can thank u/Soulsquisher for that. He jumped the gun and blew your chance to really throw a monkey wrench in this later down the road. And for that, whew, I'm thankful.

TL:DR. Y'all thought you owned something because you got an invite to the stage. But you own nothing until you prove yourselves, and, at that, you failed miserably.

r/BestQualityOfLife represents the public arm of our organization, The HumLow Foundation is a fiscally sponsored collective hosted by the Open Collective Foundation (OCF).

What that means is that this non-profit organization, OCF, decided to take a risk and put their name on HumLow. By putting their name on us, we are now legally allowed to solicit donations and there is a tax write-off for you if you donate.

Anything donated goes into a fund that can only be released by the non-profit that sponsors us. As you can see from the website, all transactions are public, all requests are republic, and everything has to be approved before any money will be released from that fund to be used for whatever it needs to be used for. We have to submit expense reports to get a dime out of that fund. It is strictly legal.

Y'all are sitting on piles of money, and we need some of it. Whatever you'll give us, will be used to make lives better for people today, but more importantly, for tomorrow and every generation after.

Do you know who I am? You might. I'm the mechanic that was teaching a free mechanics class to teens on how to remove and replace engines. Redditors donated, to me personally, $18k last year after all my tools were stolen. I made the best use of that money possible. And now I'm on to a whole nother level. A nice boost would be reeeaaal helpful right now.

Donate at the The HumLow Foundation link above. Make life better for more than just you and yours. You have the power, like myself, to create hope through action. Do it.

Our organization, The HumLow Foundation is a fiscally sponsored collective hosted by the Open Collective Foundation (OCF).

What that means is that this non-profit organization, OCF, decided to take a risk and put their name on HumLow. By putting their name on us, we are now legally allowed to solicit donations and there is a tax write-off for you if you donate.

Anything donated goes into a fund that can only be released by the non-profit that sponsors us. As you can see from the website, all transactions are public, all requests are republic, and everything has to be approved before any money will be released from that fund to be used for whatever it needs to be used for. We have to submit expense reports to get a dime out of that fund. It is strictly legal.

Y'all are sitting on piles of money, and we need some of it. Whatever you'll give us, will be used to make lives better for people today, but more importantly, for tomorrow and every generation after.

Do you know who I am? You might. I'm the mechanic that was teaching a free mechanics class to teens on how to remove and replace engines. Redditors donated, to me personally, $18k last year after all my tools were stolen. I made the best use of that money possible. And now I'm on to a whole nother level. A nice boost would be reeeaaal helpful right now.

Donate at the The HumLow Foundation link above. Make life better for more than just you and yours. You have the power, like myself, to create hope through action. Do it.

Wow - thank you so much for taking the time writing this! It's great to hear from someone who's paid to do open source development.

I need to re-read it and digest it a bit better, but from a first read I mostly agree with you.

You're right that I phrased it a bit badly when I said "the open source funding problem", because it made it sound like I saw all of the different open source communities as a cohesive thing all working the same way. I completely agree that peoples attention is the more precious resource, and the "Entitled Karen" behavior is incredibly annoying to see!

What's interesting to me though is initiatives like GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective etc have started appearing and seem to be becoming more popular. This indicates to me that there's some interest in getting more funding, at least from a subset of developers.

I've also seen developers who openly state that if they're trying to reach a certain amount of monthly donations so they can work on OSS full time.

What I mentioned above might just be outlier style behavior, and maybe initiatives like GH Sponsors etc doesn't serve much of a meaningful purpose. It's still a very interesting question, and I'm looking forward to hearing more about what people think about it.

Once again, thanks a bunch for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it!

As mentioned above, this is a volunteer run endeavor. We don't have funding and people are working on their spare time outside of full time jobs. With a project like this you want to be extremely careful. One mistake and we could set back the left years in terms of engaging with the technology. The smart contracts are already on the main net but to be secure we need to do more testing. As well as you can tell from the video update, that version of the application didn't look very good so we wanted to drastically revamp the look of the app to make it easier for others to understand exactly what they're doing when interacting with the application.

This stuff takes time. Please be patient. Or if you really want to help out, you can stake PAN or give to our Open Collective.

It boils down to whether people feel whether a fork is the same project. It's a difficult issue, but I'm not particularly happy with the current resolutions.

I haven't looked into it much, but my impression is that it is the most "official" fork, by quantity of former contributors.

But in this case: The majority of the work on the project comes from the maintainer. 2.5million lines, 500,000 net additions is more than the rest of the contributors combined. It wasn't a massively active project, but it's obvious that as with a lot of open source, a minority of contributors make up the majority of commits.

My main issue/question is that this automatic transfer to the new maintainers may have included the balance. $11,000 was then returned to the original maintainer. This is a lot of money for an Open Source project (roughly half faker's annual budget). I applaud the new maintainers if this transaction was a choice by them.

The current repo does not meet the promises listed on Open Collective. Sponsors logos are not included in the repo. This may or may not have been the case with the original project.

I'd have much preferred to see financial contributors asked to see where the money goes. I'd expect to see them move to the new faker-js given the vandalism of the main repo, but it's disappointing that they haven't been given a choice yet.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the admins of a project hosted on Open Collective. I don't think this biases my view.

I appreciate it boss. We are looking for good people to join the team. If you would like to check things out a little, we are fiscally sponsored by the Open Collective Foundation at:

https://opencollective.com/the-humlow-foundation

They have some other donation page that is a bit harder to find that handles their licensing model.

https://opencollective.com/vyos

You can find the link to this on their blog.

https://blog.vyos.io/introducing-vyos-on-opencollective

I could be wrong but the professional use sounds like a business license to me which is $100 a month

> What should be your concern is your subreddit is not looking good at all.

It looks a lot better without your FUD.

You complain about censorship then threaten to have us censored by complaining to reddit admins when someone calls you out on your BS.

> Sticky it and complete full circle, please.

Why should I? It's been upvoted on it's own. Soon it will be irrelevant history.

> It is clear whose subreddit is more productive, one with donations and a team and lots of toxicity, or one with ZERO donations and one person led collective who hate toxicity.

Donations are for the site, and the hosting, we also plan to expand what we offer once we've gotten some of the pages on the site finished. As you can see opencollective though, nothing has been withdrawn except for annual fees. None of the team gets paid for their contributions.

> Many people have helped make me what I am today, and 10-20 active people can do nothing.

Everything is clearly about you.

> We cater to a spectrum bigger than you ever will, and we do not earn subscriber numbers via dead accounts.

Our subscription numbers are largely what we achieved in the last few months.

> We have a passion that none of you do, and that drives us. We are strong and bold.

I guess you're more courageous than I'll ever be too.

I'm considering getting into this area as well. What with my social media presence and all I don't think many for-profit companies are going to be interested. In addition to the resources /u/These_Trust3199 provided (which I'm going to begin combing through this morning) I want to point to https://opencollective.com/. I just discovered it a week or so ago -- they provide legal and financial help to coops and have an API that can be queried to integrate transparency into coop funding, so lots of cool opportunities there (been working on a free-store idea that would integrate opencollective info to show coop funds vs amount needed to provide shipping etc as a way to encourage donations without requiring payment outright).

I see this sort of thread occasionally here, there seems to be a general interest in tech coops these days. Maybe we could have a Matrix chat dedicated to seeking coop work or should that not work out, organizing a new one.

I'm one of the maintainers of the Dhall configuration language project. Dhall is a programmable configuration language with a focus on language security.

We have an OpenCollective page here for donations:

• Open Collective - Dhall

I blame the headline for this confusion. The two stories are bot linked.

OBS have been working towards an official flatpak build for months.

Unrelated to that, this December Red Hat has made donations to a number of opensource projects. OBS happened to be one of them.

It isnt a partnership, a steering of resources or other form of payment for work or direction.

The full list of Red Hat donations via Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/redhat/transactions

Here is the link to the hardship fund: https://opencollective.com/student-workers-of-columbia/projects/withheld-stipends?fbclid=IwAR0O5TqDCMq\_G89Y9kMYnDeDSMm7b4nV2P8RmEVLphPccnpIvcegx5mfwT0#category-CONTRIBUTE

Hey all, I am a graduate instructor at Columbia currently on strike. Others have other explained our demands, but to reiterate: we are fighting for a living wage as our current stipends do not meet cost-of-living in NYC, dental and vision coverage, and neutral arbitration for discrimination and harassment. Two weeks ago, the university threatened to fire us, which is not only morally reprehensible but ILLEGAL. If you can, please consider donating to our hardship fund and sharing the link. https://opencollective.com/student-workers-of-columbia/projects/withheld-stipends?fbclid=IwAR0O5TqDCMq\_G89Y9kMYnDeDSMm7b4nV2P8RmEVLphPccnpIvcegx5mfwT0#category-CONTRIBUTE

No, the university developed a retaliatory pay structure to deprive pay during strikes that is the subject of a NLRB unfair labor practice. And international students are supported by UAW strike pay and the hardship fund, which you can donate to here https://opencollective.com/withheld-stipends

Well either then just spreading awareness you can donate to the unions strike fund if you feel like it and have extra money

https://opencollective.com/withheld-stipends

Even just sending a message of solidarity over social media can be helpful as well

I don't think you understand the purpose of the PHP Foundation. They're not taking over PHP, lol. PHP is still a community managed project. Everything is still voted on as normal. It's like some of you are here to just shoot down the PHP Foundations goal before you've even read it...

https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation

> Our priority in 2022 is to fund part/full-time developers to work on the PHP core github.com/php/php-src.

As someone not following the development closely, but using Solus daily:

Solus is understaffed for sure, and there are many many things the devs would like to get done since a while, but are just missing the ressources to do so. Think the new software center, the new Budgie or even just including more packages in the repos. This could all be done way quicker if they had some funding and more devs. That being said: What's there is there and works nicely, packages are updated very timely, it's all stable and fun to use.

If you want to ensure the survival of Solus you should consider contributing to funding here.

It's real to some degree. The only question is that whether a €2000 gaming laptop is needed for "Package Building and Testing" or not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ManjaroLinux/comments/hwo33h/change_of_treasurer_for_manjaro_community_funds/

https://opencollective.com/manjaro/expenses/22477

TLDR: Manjaro had all their donation money kept in the lead dev's personal bank account. The community didn't like that so they moved the money somewhere else and put a different person as the treasurer to manage the money. The lead dev wanted to buy a €1,994.96 gaming laptop for another dev for "Package Building and Testing". The treasurer publicly rejected it, so the treasurer got fired. The new treasurer then approved it

https://www.reddit.com/r/ManjaroLinux/comments/hwo33h/change_of_treasurer_for_manjaro_community_funds/

https://opencollective.com/manjaro/expenses/22477

TLDR: Manjaro had all their donation saved in the lead dev's personal bank account. The community didn't like that so they moved they money somewhere else and put a different person as the treasurer who manages the accounts. The lead dev wanted to by a €1,994.96 gaming laptop for another dev for "Package Building and Testing". The treasurer publicly rejected it, so the treasurer got fired. The new treasurer then approved it

Thanks for asking. I was absent for health related reasons. Unclear how long the situation will persist I was unable to inform the team for how long I will be absent. Everything was setup to run perfectly without me, the domain was pointing at a server in full control of the privacyguides team, enough money in the domain account to pay for 25 years on automatic renewal.

• Claim was made that the domain will expire, need to move to another domain to create a sense of urgency.

• I haven't logged into my BurungHantu account for more than 90 days, so the PrivacyGuides team decided to manually request a subreddit takeover from reddit.

• They removed me from the GitHub organization and are now spinning it "privacytools is not even open source!" the git was manually archived to point users to PrivacyGuides: https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io

• Removed from https://opencollective.com/privacyguides with over 10k in donations.

• Initially I was in full support of their fork PrivacyGuides.org and even left the redirect from privacytools.io to privacyguides.org. After I've realized that they have removed me from all platforms and are not willing to include me in any of the old accounts (GitHub, reddit, opencollective), I've decided against it and relaunch a complete new website. Still willing to let everything slide and happy to see both projects coexist... But until today I have to read negative / hostile comments from my old team members regarding privacytools.io instead of support each other and improving the privacy of internet users.

• Jonah started the project PrivacyGuides.org years ago, but instead of building it up from scratch like I did with www.privacytools.io and r/privacytoolsIO they decided to take over all content and users from privacytools and made it look like rebranding.

Just give back the subreddit and do your own thing..

User donations (a small number of which are sponsorships/ads).

Most don't. Some larger ones have charitable foundations and people directly working on fundraising.

> ? I know the principle of open source (or one of them) is non profit

You're free to sell OSS provided you meet the terms of the license. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html is a nice start.

Smaller Open Source:

• You need to be top 0.1% on a business-facing project to make a living wage. I'm one of the maintainers of a project that's #2 in terms of users donating on Open Collective, and it's close to sustainable, but not there yet.
• Bounties aren't a reasonable way to make anything other than beer money
• Some companies have an OSS offering and pay contributors, you ideally want this. It's not that there's a lot of competition, but knowing where to look can be challenging
• You'll find a few job boards for OSS, I'm not familiar, but I know they exist.
• Reach out to people that you're collaborating with. They've got much more information in the niches that you work in.

Larger Open Source:

• You can typically be employed by a larger tech company, or work under a foundation/nonprofit. As a quick example of something a little unorthodox: Tor

If you have financial stability: do it. You'll find a way to make things work (or you'll go back to industry/contracting after a while after doing something where you know you're doing good in the world).

If you'll worry about money (not nerves about loss of income, but having a limited runway where you need to succeed), then do it in your free time.

Life's slowly getting better for OSS devs. Worst case, the grass will be even more green in the coming years.

AnkiDroid is open for financial contributions on Open Collective

I'm open for sponsorship on GitHub Sponsors

This is a separate comment to let the votes/moderation speak for themselves without affecting the main post.

Looks like GoFundMe doesn't support Singapore.

Open Collective does, though, but that's because they only provide the fundraising platform, not payment collection. Still, it's entirely free if done by bank transfers.

> That is not correct. I am still removed from the organization that I have created on GitHub, you can check it here:

> https://github.com/privacytoolsIO "GITHUB ORG MOVED to @privacytools" and I am not part of that manually moved organization.

That's actually not correct. Jonah transferred the repos from privacytoolsIO to privacytools long before any disagreement. You were still an owner of privacytoolsIO.

> That is a bit rich coming from you guys collecting roughly 10k USD in donations and sponsorships for hosting and didn't pay for the domain even once? Where did that money go? It seemes to be vanished: https://opencollective.com/privacytools

All services and hosting costs were taken from OpenCollective, as per the expenses page. The intention is that the expenses will continue to fund the project. No member has had monetary benefit from this.

> Thank you for linking to the github commits, they show u who shouldered most of the foundation work, content which is still online today on privacyguides. https://imgur.com/a/2vvltig

You haven't done anything since about 2018.

> The moment I came back I was met with hostile comments and resentment, and it seemed like you guys had prepared a narrative that was followed. Not cool.

We couldn't contact you, and when we did you didn't respond.

> When it stops being a hobby and starts being a cash grab is when they stop being trustworthy.

I am currently wondering what the privacyguides team did with the roughly 10,000 USD from sponsorships and donations. They vanished for now? https://opencollective.com/privacytools

I’m with Pugged actually. If you look into how Dark Reader was ported to Safari, it’s just the one developer who ported it who seems to be generating all the profits. But there were tons of people who contributed to that project presumably because it was free. If you want to support the project, then donate to the collective: https://opencollective.com/darkreader/donate.

We have an OpenCollective page here: https://opencollective.com/veloren

Right now, all donations go toward funding infrastructure. We're completely transparent with all of our outgoings and expenses claimed by developers through this system so you can be sure that it's going towards the project.

Thanks for taking the time to get a look at my profile. I am not an admin of https://opencollective.com/asyncapi so I was not paying myself but was getting paid for the development and community building activities for the AsyncAPI project. Same responsibilities every month, so invoiced one a month for my work Not a single AsyncAPI community member voiced concerns here. If you noticed, the last payment was around December 2020, and I'm still here working hard for AsyncAPI.

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You definitely need to learn how Open Collective works, it can be that the Admin of collective pays money to himself because this is how it works, Admin collects money for his open-source project to work on it full time. This time I was lucky, Fran had money from another source (consulting) and could afford getting me on board.

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Any other concerns that I can solve here and explain? I can't believe I'm actually doing it instead of trying to help those folks in other ways, but I kinda get your comments too personal and also naively think that those that are skeptical will change their mind just based on my comment.

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u/wiki_me thanks so much for fighting for us!

Can you give an example of what you are trying to do? I think you might be overthinking it. Sometimes things are so easy they seem hard. To make a get request you just do requests.get(). Here is a simple example you can run. The site I am requesting returns json data so I will also call json() on it to parse the json for me so we can access the data like a dictionary.

Import requests

opencollective_data = requests.get("https://opencollective.com/webpack.json") opencollective_json_data = opencollective_data.json()

print(open_collective_json_data)

print(opencollective_json_data["yearlyIncome"])

!docs requests

Not sure if your comment about "fanboyism" was in response to my post or the original article. If it was for my post, that is a clear deflection since i never mentioned anything about Vue. My comment was solely a critique on Facebook "open source", which many people, even people/companies outside of the entire web community who don't care about react, vue, svelte, angular, etc, have been hurt by. If that was your only takeaway, I might consider some self-reflection on "fanboyism".

As for, "predominantly funded by Alibaba", do you have any proof/data to support that claim? The major funding platforms I know of are Evan You's Patreon and VueJs Open Collective. I wasn't able to see Patreon's breakdown on their website... but for the open collective, the biggest organization sponsors were Frontend Masters - $27k, Shopware AG $26k, Modus Create $25k, Chrome $22k, FactSet $18k, CircleCI $18k, etc. Care to provide any data to support your claim?

https://www.patreon.com/evanyou
https://opencollective.com/vuejs

There's also a more subtle, but crucial, aspect to this.

Without clear chains of authority for commits, a transparent and intelligent End of Life plan, some kind of structure for various subgroups (again, with a single benevolent leader being the primary contact for that field), and many other organizational and documentation-related structures in place, it's challenging convincing qualified and talented folks to volunteer to join our team. Let alone the transparency requirements related to our (humble) fundraising and expenses (which are totally transparent and can be seen here).

These are now table stakes for any aspiring community-based group. We wouldn't work with a group that lacks these, were it not for the fact that we got involved early on. Fixing this is one of our primary goals. We have these things conceptually set up, and we practice them informally. But with an absentee manager out of the loop, it's hard to make these a reality in a formal sense. Everyone, both inside and outside our group, deserves better.

We have big dreams for what the rebranded PTIO can be, and how much fun it can be for the teammates who join (link). We want good people. We need good people. But before this can happen, we need to make the organization something that someone would enjoy being involved with and lets them focus their skills on the problems they're good at, instead of being distracted by organizationally dysfunctional issues.

Focus on yourself: pick the one where you can get the most money. Nothing stops you from using all of them, but be aware that people may not donate if you provide them with too many options.

Whatever you do: pick at least one, don't let analysis paralysis get in the way of the decision.

Personally prefer Open Collective, but I'm also on GitHub Sponsors

GitHub Sponsors: No fees (unsustainable IMO, but great), limited discovery, few people will donate, limited features (but no fees!)

Open Collective: Better for discovery, great for handling the legal side if you have more than one dev, transparent expenses, 10% fee.

Ko.fi - haven't used it myself, but looks good

Absolutely! but to note:

• Personally, I'd prefer to ask for money from people that we're directly benefiting, or from grants/corporations
• $12/y is much more effective then $1/m. Each payment is swamped by per-transaction payment processor fees otherwise
  • At low amounts it's significant: $1/m over a year would lead to around $4.50 in processor fees

Donation link

I just checked TypeORM's Open Collective budget. They have over a year of budget still in the account! This indicates that they have enough money and 2018's post was effective. There seem to be basic business management problems. I've asked Pleerock to contact me.

https://opencollective.com/typeorm#category-BUDGET

From the horse's mouth: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/c6a2bp/why_is_ankidroid_free/eseppqi/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3

But, if you like it, do donate

Also, if you would like to actually help us get by financially, please do consider donating! We are in need of some funding for an ambitious project we are working on. https://opencollective.com/livetl

You know what, they can take my money. Go ahead and donate to them at https://opencollective.com/flybywire. It maybe an open-source project but the progress they made is just astounding.

yes they [jails, I'm not talking about prisons] sure do this shit ALL THE TIME. Daily.

I don't know if you were paying attention last summer but we saw an honestly baffling amount of evidence that cops all over the country Just Do Not Give A Fuck About You. Most people in jail are arrested, charged, and released on bond pending trial because they have not been convicted of a crime and the lawman has no business holding them until such a time as he can secure a conviction in a court of law by a jury of peers etc. etc.

Donate to your local jail-support volunteer group or start one in your area.

Chicago's Cook County Jail is notorious for this kind of shit (back in the day they used to let people out 24/7) and some people are trying to do some real effort to remediate the harm caused. drop them a dime if you can afford it

https://opencollective.com/chicago-community-jail-support

MDN is being taken over by Open Web Docs. Mozilla and lots of others are supporting them. It moves the entire thing out from under Mozilla into the open. Lots of backers.

https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/updates/introducing-open-web-docs

Il faut probablement les contacter via leur formulaire de contact pour demander ou est la page d'aide à la traduction ! Au pire s'iels n'en ont pas cela leur fera réaliser que c'est important d'avoir ça dans plusieurs langues, surtout pour les sujets techniques !

Sinon il faut fouiller leur dépôt, peut-être y a t-il une partie liée à la traduction collaborative :

https://github.com/tosdr

Au pire du mieux du pire, on dirait qu'on peut les soutenir financièrement, les contacter en parallèle en disant que c'est ça que tu attends :

https://opencollective.com/tosdr

Les équipes de traduction de l'association framasoft font un travail incroyable et parfois ultra rapide, peut-être que tosdr a ici besoin d'un coup de pouce ?