<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:11 PM Donald Stufft <a href="http://mailto:donald@stufft.io">donald@stufft.io</a> wrote:</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"></p><div class="markdown-here-exclude"><p></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas <<a href="mailto:nicholas.chammas@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicholas.chammas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">I know a more concrete proposal would have to address a lot of details (e.g. like how to split contributions across multiple maintainers), and perhaps there is no way to find the resources to build or maintain such a thing in the first place. But just for now I’d like to separate essence of idea from the practical concerns of implementing it.</span></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I’m mulling over the idea in my head, but one other thing we’d need to figure out is the *legality* of doing this and if it’s something the PSF is willing to do at all.</div></div></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Would it simplify things for the PSF if they partnered with someone who took care of moving the money around?</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">The PSF, via PyPI, would bring a large, opt-in user base to their doorstep, and in return the payment provider (e.g. Gratipay, Salt) would cut the PSF some tiny slice of each transaction.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">I don’t know if this tweak makes the proposal more realistic (again, maybe the margins wouldn’t work for the provider), but at least on first blush I think would help us accomplish the following:</p>
<ul style="margin:1.2em 0px;padding-left:2em">
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">We offer the community a low-friction, standardized way to support projects they care about.</li>
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">The PSF doesn’t have to handle thorny legal and accounting issues, at least not as bad as they would if they handled the payments directly.</li>
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">The PSF builds up a funding stream that can support our core infrastructure.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Nick</p>
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