Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Donations (was: New features in Mail app)

[Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r)]

Jason Wies wrote:
> 
> I think this is a very good idea.  phpGroupWare obviously has a huge user 
> base, including quite a bit of corporate users.  I tend to think a lot of 
> donations would come through this, simply through having it be available (and 
> linked to after downloading, after receiving an answer in the forums, bug 
> tracker, etc).  I also think the payee should have the option of 
> "fine-graining" where their money goes.  Ie (numbers aren't important):
> 
> (1) General thank-you
> (2) Future development
> (3-70) Thank-you for <appname>
> (71-140) Future development for <appname>
> (140-220) Thank-you to <developer>
> (220-300) Future development for <developer>
> 
> (1), (2), (71-140), and (220-300) would all be put in the general community 
> pot, most likely managed by a controlling company (Clear River Tech?  I'm not 
> exactly sure how that relationship works).  (3-70) would go directly to the 
> programmer(s) responsible for the application, and obviously (140-220) would 
> go directly to the developer.  A lot of users have had good experiences with 
> a particular app or helpful developer and might donate that way.
> 
> I'm actually more hopeful that they would donate under the Future development 
> categories, in which case the controlling company would be able to pay 
> willing developers to work on specific projects, and would generally speed up 
> developement.  I don't think the non-core developers should demand direct 
> payments for those things either; a controlling company would be able to 
> ensure the money is distibuted as it should be, and that it actually benefits 
> phpGroupWare in the end.  Of course anything that might take money away from 
> the core developers would be bad in my opinion; we need leaders (both in 
> management and code), and I wouldn't think of diverting funds from them 
> (again a bit ignorant of how exactly that works).
> 

I will ask the Free Software Foundation if they can do this for us. They
should already have the nessesary setup for this kinda thing.

Seek3r