I paid for my Jolla licence and would like to financially support community efforts but I won’t bother to set a list of my 20 preferred apps, searching for each donation links and repeating the process each year.
Here I note that poetaster is using Liberapay, among at least 10 others. With Liberapay we can setup team profiles as unique donation entry points (and with configurable income ratios behind to be discussed).
I would like to help setting up such a team as I already did for :
That is an internal governance question to solve by debate. « All the same share » is an option, but we can imagine stats made from the app “stores” votes for each apps, of download rates, are whatever…
A way for users to decide for their own would be to simply use the Liberapay team profile as a bookmark collection of projects available (and make individually differentiated donations). It would still be useful as a starting point.
The shares can be determined by the members. Since it’s dispersed immediately, the team members have to agree to this up front.
I think it’s a good idea to have a single point, though from the vantage of the developer, it’s not so good I’ve never made any money on librepay (well, since last year, 9 cents a week) so it can’t hurt.
In any case, making it easier to donate is a good thing, I believe.
Sailmates has a broad enough purpose, but since it’s a ‘club’ it can’t easily take money and disburse it without fairly tight constraints. Something like regularly occuring disbursements look a lot like ‘employment’ and that can get tricky. I’ll try to get the point onto the agenda. We have a meeting on the 21st of January at 18:30 CET
I think it’s a good idea in principle, but I can envision some troubles regarding the shares indeed. Could we have a team that also encourage individual donations? I have https://liberapay.com/rubdos/ and https://liberapay.com/Whisperfish/ separately; Gabriel and Matti are also on the WF team.
I think the idea was to make it ‘easy’ for those not discriminate and in a hurry? I think there are few enough of us that it hard matters Well, at least it doesn’t gather income for me and I get many more donations directly via paypal. For my part, I’m fine with an even split or less More is less. Or is less more?
I would have forgotten about librepay YEARS ago if it wasn’t for the annoying notification I get every week that I have 9 cents (I think it went up this week to 20 cents!) in income from librepay. So, count on me to forget about librepay until that changes. so, I’ll just make a team and invite you and you can silently take all the cash since I’m EXPECTING 9 (20) cents a week!
I actually receive some coins via Liberapay from time to time: https://liberapay.com/ichthyosaurus/ (A big thank you to all who donated, it’s much appreciated!)
Since the whole subscription thing started, I added a reminder to all my apps that invites users to help with coding, translations, or by donating. Maybe that’s why some people notice my Liberapay?
I’ve never made any money on librepay (well, since last year, 9 cents a week) so it can’t hurt.