Donations page
Jason Robinson
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Maxwell posted details of the PayPal donations account that has been set up by the FSSN for receiving funds for the Diaspora project. I'm sure he will update here too soon - if not the email and the PayPal button code is on the press@ box.
PayPal shouldn't be the only option - but it looks like we will have to start with that and work with the FSSN in the future to provide more options.
Any ideas what kind of page we should have for donations? Anyone want to take a stab at prototyping one?
IMHO we could add a donations page without too much fuss or promotion, then slowly start saying we accept donations. No point in shouting for money as we didn't want a crowdfunding either.
Poll Created Wed 18 Dec 2013 7:13AM
Apply for Flattr non-profit and add a button to project site Closed Fri 10 Jan 2014 6:10AM
The community does not want to Flattr individual developers, pods or our friends (=software components and platforms).
We should apply for non-profit account at Flattr, which is a very popular micro-donation site for individuals and projects. The non-profit status would mean 100% funds received from donates and in theory we should get it via the FSSN.
Regardless whether this succeeds, if this proposal is agreed, we should create a Flattr account and add a button on the project site (footer maybe?).
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 40.0% | 2 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 60.0% | 3 |
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| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 18 |
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5 of 23 people have participated (21%)
Dennis Schubert
Wed 18 Dec 2013 7:20AM
The projects donations have to go to the FSSN which is not accepting Flattr at the moment.
Dennis Schubert
Wed 18 Dec 2013 9:39AM
The projects donations have to go to the FSSN which is not accepting Flattr at the moment.
(unblocked this because dark red is stopping discussions... ;))
retired__-__
Thu 2 Jan 2014 12:06AM
Flattr is a concept I don't really think is good for donations. And taking a 10% share is pretty high...
retired__-__
Thu 2 Jan 2014 12:07AM
Flattr is a concept I don't really think is good for donations. And taking a 10% share is pretty high. So even if diaspora should get the non-profit non-fee that means endorsing that service which otherwise take a large cut.
goob
Thu 9 Jan 2014 8:21PM
Of course I'd like Diaspora to be able to accept payment in various forms, but my understanding is that we simply can't do this at the moment, because there is no mechanism for this. So I can't vote for it because I don't think it's possible.
Jason Robinson Wed 18 Dec 2013 7:16AM
Btw, Flattr has payouts to PayPal - and in fact better the Flattr money can be used to do things like flattr's to devs and projects we like, for example, without the necessary need to pay out.
Jason Robinson Wed 18 Dec 2013 7:17AM
Oh link to flattr non-profit page: https://flattr.com/support/charityaccount
Jason Robinson Wed 18 Dec 2013 7:30AM
I don't agree on this reasoning. If the Flattr donations were paid out, they would go to the FSSN since Flattr payouts are via PayPal. But we can get some love and show some love as a project without ever touching cash.
I think we're just shooting ourselves in the leg if we go all bureaucracy in everything..
Jason Robinson · Wed 18 Dec 2013 7:14AM
Also btw, anyone been working on the donations page?
We should probably start drafting some rules for our community - who has responsibility for things like project donations etc - those need to be written down.