Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

2013-06-19 Thread Venture Communism
l Message - From: MJ Ray To: debian-project@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:37 AM Subject: Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations Venture Communism > Everything you said made sense until you said PaySwarm might not bet > the best way to expose financial data to

Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

2013-06-19 Thread Venture Communism
"tfheen is not alone.  This podcast suggests a correlation between tipping and other forms of corruption - maybe because it normalises the concept of informal payment for work if and only if you like the outcome - and a deeply-researched link between various types of discrimination and tipping: htt

Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations (was: PaySwarm-based donations)

2013-06-19 Thread Venture Communism
"On the other hand, I agree as well that something like this is no longer Debian-specific, and should be better discussed / adopted at a cross-distro level, relying on existing standards (e.g. DOAP) if available." DOAP is RDF. PaySwarm is RDF. Doesn't get more interoperable than that. - Ori

Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations (was: PaySwarm-based donations)

2013-06-18 Thread Venture Communism
"Those projects are of course deserving the support, but it leaves all the less-visible but crucially important projects without the support." You already have as much help as you need in leaving them without support already so a contribution of labor would be superfluous. Something like that?

Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations (was: PaySwarm-based donations)

2013-06-18 Thread Venture Communism
So let's get this straight. Step 1) Ask APT people if it belongs in APT Get told to go to debian-project list Step 2) Ask debian-project list if can put in APT Get told doesn't belong in APT Step 3) Fix proposal so it's not in APT, changes to package named 'donate', includes other non-univers

Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations (was: PaySwarm-based donations)

2013-06-18 Thread Venture Communism
So let's get this straight. Step 1) Ask APT people if it belongs in APT Get told to go to debian-project list Step 2) Ask debian-project list if can put in APT Get told doesn't belong in APT Step 3) Fix proposal so it's not in APT, goes upstream as asked for, etc. Get told to go tell another

Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

2013-06-18 Thread Venture Communism
Brian, what do you think of the successes of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_budgeting? Also doesn't that dailymail article state that it's mostly the upper classes that are tempted by the "mere smell" of money? "One 2012 study by the Univers

Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

2013-06-18 Thread Venture Communism
eople with cable bills and proofs of mortgage and addresses and identifiable facial features and they were a dime a dozen. Or alternatively I am poor and unable to do the above but I'd be very good at software if I could devote more time to it. But as things are going now we'll n

Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations

2013-06-18 Thread Venture Communism
Full disclosure: Transfer #1     "transfer": [       {         "type": "Transfer",         "source": "https://meritora.com/i/d***Digital Bazaar Executive Name Redacted***/accounts/primary",         "destination": "https://meritora.com/i/netflux/accounts/primary";,         "amount": "0.009800",