Recurring Donations

[oliverpool]

Hi,

you have a good “Donate” page, but it is hard to know who to give to.

There is a nice (french) open-source platform for recurring micro-donations: Liberapay.com.
It allows you to create a team and the members of the team decide how they split the donations (one can also give directly to one person).

They eat there own food, since they don’t get money on the transactions (the fees are for the Mango costs), but also have a page to receive donations https://liberapay.com/Liberapay/.

I created a (small) pledge for the caddy team: https://liberapay.com/on/github/caddyserver/.
To receive it, you only have to signup and link your github account (to prove that you belong to the caddyserver team :-).

All the best and thanks again for this great software !

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Hey Oliver! Thanks for setting that up, it’s really nice of you.

Recurring donations were something that bothered me a couple years ago when I set it up because there wasn’t any good solutions that I could find that really fit. (Now there’s DonorBox, too, which I looked at recently, but kinda too late.)

On April 20, the Donate page on our site will be going away. We have a replacement ready which will launch next week with the new version of Caddy. I will see if/how this pledge can fit into the new site and DM you what I decide!

[oliverpool]

The rest happened in a private conversation, referring to https://caddyserver.com/products

@matt

Thanks so much for setting that up! It is a great idea.

I looked over the pledge site and it looks good. I wish I had set something like this up 2 years ago, because next Thursday, we’re not going to ask for donations anymore. Part of the announcement on April 20 is that we’ve formed a company that is going to help sustain the Caddy project financially by selling sponsorships and subscriptions to businesses for private support.

Our sincerest hope is that we won’t have to accept donations. But we’ll see how business goes and then maybe revert to librepay or something if we have to!

Of course I/we won’t reject donations (unless I learn of some crazy tax law that discourages it). So while I won’t be promoting that librepay page, it’s okay that it’s around, I don’t think it will cause any trouble.

Cheers - and thanks again!
Matt

@oliverpool

Hi Matt,

thank you for your reply!

I think it isn’t incompatible with Liberapay (it might just be strange to show a donation button near your private support offers).
From the philosophy of Liberapay (at least, how I interpret it) you may receive donations as long as your remain a “creator of commons” (ie. as long as you keep caddy free & open-source).

I wish you all the best with your new company!

[rugk]

Also would like to see you on LIberapay! It is a great donation site for FLOSS projects?

So the reply sounds as if you setup a page, but do not advertise it. (which I don’t understand, I mean it won’t hurt )

But I could not find it, so?