I think suggest a donation is a good idea.
New releases in inkscape-web can handle this when start using it. Maybe is time to fill a bug in inkscape-web if is the desired option.
Also we can move to a help page to donate and also show cool inkscape merchandaising.
El lun, 15-02-2016 a las 13:30 +0100, Olof Bjarnason escribió:
I think Launchy's model is nice. Suggest a (modifiable/optional) donation on download page, but don't force anything. On 15 Feb 2016 12:48, "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:
2016-02-14 12:21 GMT-08:00 Gez <listas@...3059...>:
El jue, 11-02-2016 a las 14:52 -0500, Martin Owens escribió:
On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 20:38 +0100, Sebastian Zartner wrote:
as I assume the network infrastructure wouldn't allow a huge amount of daily downloads.
As mentioned before, the network infrastructure is serving 40TB a month from our live website. (That's the equivalent of 950,000 downloads of the windows installer per month) which is A LOT. (please don't use this as a statistic, the logs tell a more direct picture that's not that high.)
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?
A problem with this is that a paywall on the official site will drive people to unofficial download locations, and these may contain trojans or other malware. (See the SourceForge fiasco, though apparently they stopped doing that.)
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.
Best regards, Krzysztof
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