On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 03:47 -0800, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
I insist that a charging for binaries could be an excellent way to get funds to get funding for the less sexy tasks (the ones that take away fun from working in free-software projects). What about a "pay what you want" model starting by 1 usd? Not comfortable with that? What about a pay what you want, and a part of that money goes to a charity, as Humble Indie Bundle does?
Some kind of button or interstitial that would encourage people to donate when downloading Inkscape would be okay, but a full-on paywall doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
I should add here that the grand plan is to develop just such a thing in the releases app on the website and then present it to the inkscape developers list for consideration before go-live.
Best Regards, Martin Owens