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Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Donations (was: New features in Mail app)
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Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r) |
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Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Donations (was: New features in Mail app) |
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Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:06:46 -0800 |
Jason Wies wrote:
>
> I think this is a very good idea. phpGroupWare obviously has a huge user
> base, including quite a bit of corporate users. I tend to think a lot of
> donations would come through this, simply through having it be available (and
> linked to after downloading, after receiving an answer in the forums, bug
> tracker, etc). I also think the payee should have the option of
> "fine-graining" where their money goes. Ie (numbers aren't important):
>
> (1) General thank-you
> (2) Future development
> (3-70) Thank-you for <appname>
> (71-140) Future development for <appname>
> (140-220) Thank-you to <developer>
> (220-300) Future development for <developer>
>
> (1), (2), (71-140), and (220-300) would all be put in the general community
> pot, most likely managed by a controlling company (Clear River Tech? I'm not
> exactly sure how that relationship works). (3-70) would go directly to the
> programmer(s) responsible for the application, and obviously (140-220) would
> go directly to the developer. A lot of users have had good experiences with
> a particular app or helpful developer and might donate that way.
>
> I'm actually more hopeful that they would donate under the Future development
> categories, in which case the controlling company would be able to pay
> willing developers to work on specific projects, and would generally speed up
> developement. I don't think the non-core developers should demand direct
> payments for those things either; a controlling company would be able to
> ensure the money is distibuted as it should be, and that it actually benefits
> phpGroupWare in the end. Of course anything that might take money away from
> the core developers would be bad in my opinion; we need leaders (both in
> management and code), and I wouldn't think of diverting funds from them
> (again a bit ignorant of how exactly that works).
>
I will ask the Free Software Foundation if they can do this for us. They
should already have the nessesary setup for this kinda thing.
Seek3r
- [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Sam Przyswa, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Tony (Angles) Puglisi, 2001/11/20
- RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Spot, 2001/11/20
- RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Spot, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Tony (Angles) Puglisi, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Lars Kneschke, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Ryan Waldron, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Tarjei Huse, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Patrick J. Walsh, 2001/11/20
- [Phpgroupware-developers] Typo in email/index.php from this morning, Ryan Waldron, 2001/11/21
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r), 2001/11/21
- [Phpgroupware-developers] Translations, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, 2001/11/23
- [Phpgroupware-developers] LDAP contacts, Miles Lott, 2001/11/23
RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Spot, 2001/11/20