Donations and sponsorships fail really deeply where the payments have no lower limit. Like Patreon, where you can pay $1/month. That's digital street begging. Programmers are not good at valuing their work, so the minimum for *any* system should be $20/month/individual $100/co.
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Wow, the "keep alive" approach is really nice and a way better idea when thinking about it! Maybe
@github can take a look at it and discuss internally?
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A "KeepAlive" payment system would be better in which companies pay a substantial monthly fee to open source projects that they have dependencies on, minimum $100/month. Idea being to Keep dependencies Alive and healthy and ongoing.
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Actually a great idea.
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So grateful to be a beta sponsored developer.
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The problem with sponsorship is that it is perceived as a gift, and optional, like a donation. Sponsorship also implies the the recipient owes you something *more*. Sponsorship is hard to justify to the accounts department, whereas "KeepAlive" is easily justified to accounts.
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It would be possible in some cases to analyze your software and come up with a list of your companies dependencies in order to decide which are most critical and deserving of a "KeepAlive" subscription.
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Note that "KeepAlive" would *not* be the same as a monthly support payment. Monthly support payments imply that an *additional level of service must be provided*, whereas KeepAlive is just to ensure health of dependencies. A project might *also* offer support subscriptions.
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Many sponsorship/donation systems openly show the amount of money the recipient gets - this should be turned off by default, because if a project receives "alot" of money, further subscribers might think "hey they don't need the dough, look how much they're getting".
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