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>Make it easy for people to pay you. There's definitely a startup opportunity for this - making it super easy to receive payment as an OSS developer (either as

>Make it easy for people to pay you. There's definitely a startup opportunity for this - making it super easy to receive payment as an OSS developer (either as a business or sole developer) and making it easy for businesses to pay. If I saw a new issue on github and it came from a corporate "OSS gold account member" which potentially comes with $$$ attached I'd be much more inclined to implement it. As it is my motivation drops off fairly quickly unless it's a serious bug or it's a relatively easy ask. I think it would be much easier to get budget if the cost to get expedited OSS bugfixes were subscription based and accounts gets to deal with a professional billing department rather than "One Man and His Hat Inc. in Iowa".

robocat 8y ago
"Daniel Pink's new book, Drive, in which he highlights the rather stunning amount of counterintuitive research that suggests that money can actually make people less motivated to do creative works." https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100603/0311539672.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100603/0311539672.shtml
frosted-flakes 8y ago
This could be a part of GitHub. Imagine there was a '$' button beside the star button, and each time you clicked it you gave one dollar to the maintainer of the repo, with a counter beside it. The '$ counter' would only be visible to the user and the repo maintainers. GitHub is the de facto hub of open source/free software, and if it was as easy to donate to a repo as it is to star it, I imagine more people would do it.