SoundsFromSound wrote > I wonder how the [Gittip] system works and how effective it could be for > FLOSS development.
I have been keeping my eye on Gittip. It's basically a tool that lets individuals make ongoing weekly payments to other individuals (or organizations) to support whatever work they do. It happens that more often than not this is volunteer work on free/open-source software. What really makes it compelling is that Gittip does not make any money off of the transactions that go through it. They only charge a minimal fee to cover their own transaction costs (credit card fees). Gittip is itself funded by voluntary donations made through Gittip. The code that runs Gittip is in the public domain and hosted on Github. I'm not affiliated with Gittip, I'm just really interested and intrigued by its potential. I've often thought that it would make sense for projects like LilyPond/Frescobaldi/etc. More info: https://www.gittip.com/about/ https://www.gittip.com/about/faq.html Here's a blog post on how it was used to support a Drupal developer: http://blog.gittip.com/post/61497419514/drupal-co-maintainer-funded-at-475-wk -Paul -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Frescobaldi-Project-Support-tp154005p154827.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
