Re: [Snowdrift-discuss] TrinkGeld: Early proposal for a desktop donation app

2017-09-24 Thread Alyssa Rosenzweig
> Addition: libraries could also being included saying: «it helps these > application to work: » Still too abstract -- perhaps donations to a package like inkscape should allocate some funds to the libraries used internally. But I digress. ___ Discuss ma

Re: [Snowdrift-discuss] TrinkGeld: Early proposal for a desktop donation app

2017-09-24 Thread Stephen Michel
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote: Marten's pitch was to get donation links included into package managers, which is a notable innovation I see in TrinkGeld, regardless of whether it has other issues. As in $ apt donate inkscape "$50" or $ apt install ink

Re: [Snowdrift-discuss] TrinkGeld: Early proposal for a desktop donation app

2017-09-24 Thread Victor/tuxayo
On 2017-09-24 23:04, Stephen Michel wrote: > Or even less intrusive: "Installed. You can support ongoing development > at " +1 And it's already easy to implement if the only target are people installing by command line(which of course isn't enough at all). Just add "echo 'Please donate at '" in

Re: [Snowdrift-discuss] TrinkGeld: Early proposal for a desktop donation app

2017-09-24 Thread Stephen Michel
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Stephen Michel wrote: On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote: Marten's pitch was to get donation links included into package managers, which is a notable innovation I see in TrinkGeld, regardless of whether it has other issues. As in

Re: [Snowdrift-discuss] TrinkGeld: Early proposal for a desktop donation app

2017-09-24 Thread Alyssa Rosenzweig
> Marten's pitch was to get donation links included into package managers, > which is a notable innovation I see in TrinkGeld, regardless of whether it > has other issues. As in $ apt donate inkscape "$50" or $ apt install inkscape Installed, would you like to make a donation at th

Re: [Snowdrift-discuss] TrinkGeld: Early proposal for a desktop donation app

2017-09-24 Thread Stephen Michel
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: On 09/06/2017 07:10 AM, David Seaward wrote: Hi all, Saw this still-very-early-days proposal at https://www.joaquimrocha.com/2017/09/05/paying-for-foss-apps/ "TrinkGeld is a proposal for a GNOME project (but should be usable in most fr

Re: [Snowdrift-discuss] TrinkGeld: Early proposal for a desktop donation app

2017-09-13 Thread Aaron Wolf
On 09/06/2017 07:10 AM, David Seaward wrote: > Hi all, > > Saw this still-very-early-days proposal at > https://www.joaquimrocha.com/2017/09/05/paying-for-foss-apps/ > > "TrinkGeld is a proposal for a GNOME project (but should be usable in > most free desktops out there) that uses monthly donatio

[Snowdrift-discuss] TrinkGeld: Early proposal for a desktop donation app

2017-09-06 Thread David Seaward
Hi all, Saw this still-very-early-days proposal at https://www.joaquimrocha.com/2017/09/05/paying-for-foss-apps/ "TrinkGeld is a proposal for a GNOME project (but should be usable in most free desktops out there) that uses monthly donations and distributes them to app developers based on how much