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

[Nicholas Chammas]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:11 PM Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
<http://mailto:donald@stufft.io> wrote:


> On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.chammas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
Would it simplify things for the PSF if they partnered with someone who
took care of moving the money around?

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.

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:

   - We offer the community a low-friction, standardized way to support
   projects they care about.
   - 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.
   - The PSF builds up a funding stream that can support our core
   infrastructure.

Nick
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