gratipay.com

Found it! :D https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/2883

A tiny, tiny change: https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/2883 :)

> people will never track down all the OSS projects they depend on and figure what would be a reasonable donation to give them. Too much agency is required of the user to achieve meaningful adoption. Yes! This gets at the B2B question mentioned elsewhere on this thread. At Gratipay, we're working on integrating package managers to help with aggregation. We've already loaded up all npm packages with stubbed out pages like: https://gratipay.com/on/npm/express/ Now we're working on adding the ability for package maintainers to easily claim their packages on Gratipay, and then companies can upload a package.json or something and give a chunk of money to their entire dependency chain. Happening here: https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/4305

As others have pointed out, platforms to fund work on open source projects already exist, and the best part is: they're open source themselves, so you can contribute! In fact I was the top developer of Gratipay for a year myself, and now I've created a fork called Liberapay (the reasons were the legal difficulties Gratipay faced in the US, and the decision its founder made to turn it into a non-neutral platform). Links: https://liberapay.com/ https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com (Python) https://gratipay.com/ https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com (Python) https://salt.bountysource.com/ https://github.com/bountysource/core (Ruby) https://snowdrift.coop/ (not operational) https://git.snowdrift.coop/sd/snowdrift (Haskell)

https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1493 is exactly what I was talking about:) edit: The Neo4j solution is really an ideal solution for automating some of this stuff. I beg you not to dismiss it out of hand because of lack of familiarity...

Awesome, thanks! :D See http://shields.io/ for README badge. I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1145.

It's a design decision, not a tax/regulatory issue. We've had one-off tipjars for decades and they haven't changed the game. My mortgage is recurring so my income needs to be recurring as well. We currently have an "Other Ways to Give" on your profile where you can link a bitcoin address or Venmo account. That's an outlet for one-offs. We may mix in first-class one-offs eventually but we're not in a rush. See https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/5.

Did you know that Gittip and Shields are in cahoots? :-) http://blog.gittip.com/post/59396458675/gittip-has-acquired-... Re: stories, I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074.

Gittip is a site for multiple communities, not one single community, so I take it as a sign of strength that we do in fact have multiple communities using Gittip now. Think along the lines of PayPal or Twitter: they are a big tent. I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074, because you're right that the homepage currently conflates the different communities that are using Gittip.

Thanks for the feedback! Did you open https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/2455? It sounds similar. :-) I've added your homepage comment with a +1 to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074, and your other comments to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1493.

Thanks for the feedback! The reason we have leaderboards on the homepage in the first place is to quickly answer the question, "Is anyone actually making a living here?" I looked at Flattr and could not for the life of me answer that question. Now that the matter is established, I agree that it's time to change the homepage. I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074. Re: Stories, see http://tomslee.net/2014/01/airbnb-stories.html for a counterargument.

Thanks for the feedback! I've added a +1 w/ your comment re: the leaderboards to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074.

Nice! Wanna help with https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1493? :-)

I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1493. When we first launched we were opt-out, which turned out to be a big no-no. Backstory: https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/28.

Thanks for the great feedback! :-) 1) No. 2) Historical accident. 3) Sounds like a +1 for https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1493? 4) I see Gittip as a marketplace that has to support both sides more or less equally. You are a generous person! I hope we can help you! :-)