[Dev] Sustainable Donations for Parabola Project

André Silva emulatorman at riseup.net
Thu Apr 28 01:19:20 GMT 2016


On 04/26/2016 09:28 PM, Luke wrote:
> Hello,
> It has come to my attention that some of our developers are now working
> full-time on Parabola (and not getting paid enough to even pay the bills!).
> We should come up with a plan to give these hard workers a minimum
> living wage. The only way I see this possible will be a weekly or
> monthly giving program, the other options such as KickStarter or
> IndieGogo are not sustainable on the long-term.
> 
> As such, I think we should reach a consensus on a good monthly giving
> platform to use for the project, and how the money will be distributed.
> 
> I think that the core developers that are working full-time should be
> paid a reasonable living wage amount for their efforts, and any excess
> could be given as bounty to part-time volunteers for fixing complex
> bugs, and/or to help grow the much needed infrastructure.
> 
> In any case, here are the available platforms that are: a)
> Libre/OpenSource and b) Monthly or weekly payments options to encourage
> continued sustainable donations:
> 
> * GratiPay - https://gratipay.com/
> * Liberapay - https://liberapay.com/ (Better I think, since it includes
> Team payment)
> 
> Others/non-free: Patreon,  do nxt, etc.
> 
> Taxes etc. would need to be handled by Ceate, but I don't think that
> will be an issue since we already have a good relationship with them for
> our current donations.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Luke

Good idea Luke, we could create a page called "Crowd-Founding" like we
did with Donations [0] and put it for the Support section in our main
page below "Donate". What do you think?

[0]:https://wiki.parabola.nu/Donations

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