[pytest-dev] Partnership possibility with Pytest

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Hi Alex,

i like the Idea i`m def +1 on adding this and seeing how it plays out,

Just to play devils advocate, are there any plans to adjust the cut
should the financial situation ever allow it at scale?

I`m also wondering if connecting parties in need of direct/indirect work
on/with the project with freelancers/companies surrounding the projects
is on the horizon.

-- Ronny

Am 31.07.2018 um 08:14 schrieb Alex Georgie:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm Alex from SeedAndDew. I was chatting with Holger and Bruno about
> SeedAndDew and whether Pytest would like to participate and they
> mentioned bringing it to the dev mailing list to get your opinions.
>
> _What is it?_
>
> SeedAndDew is a common subscription platform that allows users to
> contribute to a number of open source projects with a single
> subscription. The idea here is that it's a lot easier to get people to
> contribute $10/month to every open source project they work with than
> it is to get them to contribute $5/month for a specific project. The
> subscription revenue will be distributed based on the amount of time
> users spend reading documentation of the respective project which I
> anticipate will correspond well with actual use. So if a user spends
> 10% of their time reading the Pytest documentation, you get 10% of the
> subscription revenue.
>
> _How it works_
>
> We provide you a script that you add to the Pytest site. That script
> makes a call to our site to create a 'drop' every 2 seconds a user is
> on your site. If the user is part of our network, we would have
> provided a cookie to them when they signed in which gets passed to us
> when that call is made. We authenticate using that cookie and assign
> that drop to them and you. If they are not part of the network there
> is no cookie, they won't be authenticated and the process ends there.
> We aggregate those drops at the end of the month to figure out the
> revenue distribution.
>
> The info we have is purely opt in since the user need to not only have
> an account with us but pay us every month. We haven't built this yet,
> but the intention is to keep that data for 3 months for auditing
> purposes and then delete it. We take a 30% cut of the subscription
> that includes payment processing costs which allows us to be
> sustainable, so we don't need to get creative with the data. The other
> feature needed for GDPR is the export of user data which is also in
> the pipeline.
>
> Our goal is to increase the pool of people who contribute to open
> source by removing the friction of having to manage subscriptions paid
> to specific projects and changing it as your stack and interests
> change. This would be a passive income source that doesn't require any
> further work outside of the initial integration.
>
> So far we have 10 projects including SQL Alchemy, RSpec, Bundler,
> Browsh and Parse. Does this seem like something you would be
> interested in?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
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>
>
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