On 05/12/2020 05:11, Aaron Wolf wrote:
Liberapay is a relative stand-out in terms of working to overall be positive. I don't think they are having any sort of remarkable effect because they just support plain old traditional donations (i.e. it's just a tool for membership donations not unlike direct membership to FSF etc). I wouldn't expect a lot of income just by getting listed there, but it's okay enough.I'm the co-founder of a still-not-fully-launched platform to better organize larger crowds to support free/libre/open software and other public goods. And we have made a pretty thorough summary of the tools out there that are already available (in fact, Liberapay links to our summary in their own FAQ). So, to compare: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfunding I'm not certain that Liberapay meets the FSF level of stringent ideals (even for Snowdrift.coop working on alpha stuff, we had to compromise by serving Stripe's proprietary JavaScript on a single page). But as far as general safety, Liberapay is a legitimate platform run responsibly. So, it's safe enough, just know that most of the success in fundraising will be due to your own efforts to promote the project and ask for donations. Signing up on a platform won't get that much attention in itself.
Hi Aaron Thanks for this, I am more confident at looking further in to this now. Regards Paul Sutton
On 2020-12-03 12:48 p.m., Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote:Hi Sorry if this is off topic, I decided to ask about this here as the gnu community list seems quite and I wasn't really sure where else to ask. I am producing video / screenshots for Libreoffice to help the docs team (these resources may also help other projects too), I am looking at setting up Liberapay to help facilitate for the resources I am producing. Just wondered if anyone here has experience with this? If it is a good idea and safe to use this. By asking here, I am just exercising due diligence (if that is the right term) before taking the plunge in to this. However it could be something the Liberapay team could perhaps be invited to talk about at LibrePlanet. Raise their profile but would also be something that can directly benefit developers. Thanks Paul Sutton
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