On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 17:42 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
Providing multiple channels is an interesting idea for improving fundraising
efforts. It can also cover better auditory. I expect many artists to have a Patreon account. Aside from Gratipay I've seen open source developers using Stripe or Bitcoin directly. So it would be interesting to compare donation from "open source" vs "artist" communities.
Our primary target should be end users, which I think means paypal, patreon first. A secondary target would be Bitcoin and Stripe and other more technical methods. the reasoning I have here is that part of the process of involving users in financing Inkscape's operations is the involvement itself. Many open source and technical people know how to get involved and often have a greater say in discussions already.
I'd also like to make sure we can record user contributions and donations no matter how we got them. This is so user contributions are rewarded and gives them a better community standing than currently. where I feel coding is always given almost all the reputation points, followed by docs writers, designers and other jobs and then at dead last people who help finding :-). Not everyone can pay, not everyone can code. But helping is helping.
Martin,