Re: [OT] : Liberapay

[Paul Sutton]

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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