Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Steffen, I assume nothing in your mail is adressing me privately so I'm quoting it in my reply to the mailing list. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:18:39PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: On 08/17/2010 05:24 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Steffen Möller
Hi Patrick, On 08/18/2010 11:33 AM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:18:39PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: On 08/17/2010 05:24 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: we should only help collecting

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Steffen, On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:10:57PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: Ehm, yeah, and my father is the emperor of china, then. As you know, in Debian we have to deal at least with: - uncorporative upstreams - dead upstreams - corporative upstreams which would then fall

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Steffen Möller
On 08/18/2010 12:46 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: [ all said above, I think ] When asking the spontaneous end user to donate, we shall not expect them to distinguish between the upstream work and our packaging work. I hence find it problematic to collect only for us. A Debian money drop point

Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that with respect to their clicks in the web. I feel that Debian should somehow participate with that, i.e. we should have links whenever we display a package

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: flattr or otherwise support that package. The amount collected should then go to upstream. Maybe we should not do this for all packages but only when upstream asks for it. I guess we as a project will already run into

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: Hello, there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that with respect to their clicks in the web. I feel that Debian should somehow

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Steffen Möller
On 08/17/2010 05:43 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: Hello, there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that with respect to their clicks in the

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Steffen Möller wrote: there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that with respect to their clicks in the web. I feel that Debian should somehow participate with that, i.e. we

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Steffen Möller steffen_moel...@gmx.de writes: there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that with respect to their clicks in the web. I feel that Debian should somehow participate with that, i.e. we

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, On 08/17/2010 09:49 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Steffen Möller steffen_moel...@gmx.de writes: there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that with respect to their clicks in the web. I feel that