Donations to joindiaspora.com
goob
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What are the donations made to joindiaspora.com going towards now? None of the founders are working full-time on the project any more, and the development is being done by community devs.
If the donations are just used to keep the pod hosted, the text by the donate button should be changed to reflect this. And also I think a note should be sent to anyone who pays a monthly subscription to the pod.
Also, what is done with any surplus money donated to the pod now that the money isn't going towards development? I think there needs to be some transparency in this matter.
Jason Robinson Fri 2 Nov 2012 6:15AM
Roger, welcome! :)
Maybe the donations subject could have a blog post of it's own, Sean how do you feel? Many people I think are wondering about this.
In reality there is no way to support Diaspora* development with hard cash at the moment I guess, EXCEPT if someone wants to hire a coder :) There are sites that offer this kind of service where devs can take one time tasks from private persons for cash.
As for the need of donations I think still they are very very important and could be stressed. But the donations in general should be made to the pod that the user is on.
Poll Created Sat 18 May 2013 11:54PM
Remove donation form to Diaspora Inc. from sidebar Closed Sat 25 May 2013 12:07AM
The proposal was accepted
It's just misleading by now. Joindiaspora.com can set their own, we shouldn't ask users of other pods to fund it.
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24 of 277 people have participated (8%)
fabianrbz
Sun 19 May 2013 12:01AM
We should definitely change that text to better reflect the reality
goob
Sun 19 May 2013 11:10AM
This is long overdue and definitely needs to be changed.
Flaburgan
Sun 19 May 2013 11:27AM
I'd say change the text to explain that it pays hosting not development rather than remove it.
Florian Staudacher
Tue 21 May 2013 1:47PM
as in: you either enter a paypal id or the panel is not shown at all
Shmerl
Tue 21 May 2013 3:50PM
Agreed, since Diaspora Inc. isn't focused on D* development and doesn't represent the community as a whole anymore.
Pirate Praveen
Thu 23 May 2013 4:22PM
I would also say change the text.
Jason Robinson Tue 21 May 2013 2:40PM
+1 Florian
Roger · Fri 2 Nov 2012 5:43AM
I also think this discussion is needed. I made a one-off contribution in the past but at the moment, I'm not sure where the money is going. I agree with Goob's comment below: the text by the donate button should reflect the current reality. First contribution to Loomio :)