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Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery

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I absolutely understand your fears. Whether a project wants to finance itself through donations and whether these are only used for central infrastructure depends centrally on the type of project and community. Of course, it changes the motivation of the people if the amounts distributed become larger. We take this into account right from the start of the project:

https://github.com/protontypes/LibreSelery/wiki/Transparent-Funding-of-Git-Based-Projects#human



LibreSelery should be seen as an alternative to Tidelift or GitHub sponsors. LibreSelery gives a FLOSS community the opportunity to distribute possible funds without further middlemen.  We are convinced that funding within open source is ideally distributed via open-source software itself. However, as the commercialization and financing of open source projects is increasing, we wanted to present a concept  that is more adaptable to different community requirements. In this way, it can be decided in a public process on the basis of a free tool how this is done.





---- On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:56:52 +0200 Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> wrote ----



Le lundi 12 octobre 2020 à 13:43:49+0200, Jonathan Carter a écrit : 
> Hi Debianites, Tobias from protontypes.eu asked that I forward this 
> message along. From what I understand, they want to make it easier to 
> fund individuals who work on free software. 
> 
> He also confirmed that they're working on integrating their system with 
> GitLab, which needed some more work because it didn't have the "donate" 
> framework that GitHub uses. 
> 
> If you have any questions, you can follow up here, I told them that they 
> can subscribe to the list to follow up. 
 
So, if I understand well, the idea is to implement a way to have a 
"donate" button on salsa which would rely on their work in background to 
loadbalance the share between developers of a specific project? 
 
If so, then I feel bad about this idea. Sure, the people paying wouldn't 
be the project and hence its philosophy wouldn't be compromised in its 
core, but still we would start advertising for payment, which is a huge 
step in a way I fear the outcome. 
 
Cheers, 
 
-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue 
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It's far easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. 








Tobias Augspurger     


Co-Founder    


Mobile +4917643474156    


http://protontypes.eu

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Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2020-10-12 14:00 +0200
  Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2020-10-12 15:20 +0200
    Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2020-10-12 15:40 +0200
      Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2020-10-12 16:20 +0200
      Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2020-10-12 16:20 +0200
        Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Tobias Augspurger <tobias.augspurger@protontypes.eu> - 2020-10-12 23:40 +0200
          Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-10-13 08:00 +0200
            Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Tobias Augspurger <tobias.augspurger@protontypes.eu> - 2020-10-13 09:00 +0200
              Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2020-10-13 09:20 +0200
                Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Tobias Augspurger <tobias.augspurger@protontypes.eu> - 2020-10-13 11:20 +0200
          Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2020-10-13 18:20 +0200
            Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Tobias Augspurger <tobias.augspurger@protontypes.eu> - 2020-10-13 19:20 +0200
    Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Tobias Augspurger <tobias.augspurger@protontypes.eu> - 2020-10-12 16:40 +0200
      Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2020-10-12 17:30 +0200
    Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-10-14 16:50 +0200

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