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

[Wes Turner]

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-donation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software#Voluntary_donations


- http://alternativeto.net/software/gittip/
  (TIL GitTip is now Gratipay)
  - https://gratipay.com/about/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_table
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_bounty_program
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On Saturday, July 23, 2016, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.chammas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:35 PM Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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