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You should partner with OpenCollective.com
by andrenotgiant 9y ago
You should partner with OpenCollective.com
- feross 9y agoInteresting idea. What do you envision such a partnership would look like? Here's how I think about this. OpenCollective solves the problem of accepting payments and allocating those payments to maintainers in a transparent way (Patreon does this too, to some extent). `thanks`, on the other hand, just lets you know that a maintainer is asking for donations and directs you to their donation page which may be on OpenCollective. For example, these ones are: https://github.com/feross/thanks/blob/c203cc0248fe339e9ea4b86f60e1bef4f04c553f/index.js#L34-L55 https://github.com/feross/thanks/blob/c203cc0248fe339e9ea4b8... I suppose `thanks` could do more, e.g. accept payments directly from the command line, or ask how much you're willing to donate and then suggest an allocation to each maintainer/team. But I wanted the v1 of this product to be super simple. It merely raises awareness that you may have dependencies looking for donations, but doesn't prescribe how much to donate, which platform to donate on, or whether to donate at all.
- andrenotgiant 9y agoI was just thinking you should automatically pull in a feed of OpenCollective repos, but it looks like you are one step ahead of me! Nice job