www.gittip.com

The relationship between individuals and projects is a huge open question for Gittip. Here's the current state of my thinking (long thread preceding): https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27#issuecom... Hard goals to me implies management, and I for one don't want to be a manager. ;^)

"The people who are giving do so because they expect something in return." I believe they don't. Gift tips have no strings attached on either side. It's like employment at will, where either party is free to call it off at any time. "[E]ither the receiver is tied to that nebulous expectation of production, or they can take a break and risk losing whatever funding they received before and the resulting need to build that up again." I think it's a matter of telling your story openly and transparently. If people see me working productively for a year and then I blog about how I'm burned out and plan to take a break for a month, I would expect my funders to understand and not totally bail on me. I mean, I could set up visits around the country and have a nice vacation and still keep the story rolling. If I'm finding my living on Gittip I have

Ticketed with comments: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/196

Here's the main ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14 Basically I'm open to it if the bitcoin are transparently converted to dollars. Code talks. ;-)

Ticketed: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/195

There's a distinction between truly supporting a person, and being part of a long tail of "oh well here's a few cents." I see us trying to feel out how to work with those two cases. My current thinking is that the long tail of support for an individual will come via their association with various projects, groups, companies, brands--whatever we want to call them. Here's the ticket where we're tracking this: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27

Love it, thank you. Noted here: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138

Gittip is well suited to use bitcoin (I even saw it mentioned a few times in issues https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/search?q=bi... ), bitcoiners can even fund that feature.

Agreed. Working on it: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27

Gittip is designed to pay the mortgage for donees, and mortgages are recurring. I expect we'll mix in one-offs eventually. Here's the ticket for that: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/5 Donations are anonymous in the particulars but public in aggregate on the homepage by default.

Gittip is a site for micro-subscriptions to fund open source developers. I got a lot of feedback this week on HN and GitHub that the minimum subscription should be raised from $0.25 to $1.00: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180 I rolled that out today, so if you wanted it, go use it. :^) https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html

I've added this to the ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/140

This is an important open question. Some thinking here: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27

Or you're on Arch Linux? Does this ticket relate? https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/140

The open discussion on company decisions is the most open part to me (https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues). That's more significant than releasing the source.