[Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

[Nicholas Chammas]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:35 PM Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you seen https://rubytogether.org ? It looks like exactly what you
> are proposing, only with more blocks.
>

Interesting. I hadn't heard of that before now.

I'm not sure what you mean by "with more blocks", but that idea seems
focused on funding core Ruby infrastructure, whereas I'm proposing a way
for users to fund any Python project they want, with the added benefit that
by funding those projects they automatically also fund core Python
infrastructure too.

A rough -- but in my view very apt -- analogy for what I'm proposing would
be the iOS App Store. Users buy apps they want; when that happens, the app
developers benefit by getting paid for their work, and the general iOS
ecosystem also benefits since the maintainer of that ecosystem, Apple, gets
a cut of those payments.

Of course, in our case we are talking about voluntary monetary
contributions and not prices, and we are talking about tiny fees and not
15-30% cuts. But the basic idea is the same: Fund the core infrastructure
by capturing some of the value generated by that infrastructure.

The core infrastructure would be things like PyPI, tooling like pip, and
Python itself. The value generated by that infrastructure, for the purposes
of this discussion, would be the monetary contributions people made to
projects they appreciated. And capturing some of that value would be taking
a tiny cut out of those contributions and reinvesting it in the core.

Nick
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