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Gittip: New, Interesting, Important

37 points by justinlilly 14y ago

PythonDeveloper 14y ago
LOL... Gittip.org is down, the URL you have in your post should be "gittip.com".
- whit537 14y ago
  I scrambled and wired up DNS for gittip.org, but not soon enough apparently, sorry. :^/ Oh well, ready for next time. :^)
jnbiche 14y ago
I noticed this a few weeks ago and like the idea. I hope it catches on. I think Gittip could really benefit from Bitcoin integration, since it would lower the cost of micropayments to almost nothing. EDIT: ANd yes, to be clear, Gittip is not down -- it's hosted by github if I'm not mistaken. The actual address is: http://www.gittip.com http://www.gittip.com
- jerguismi 14y ago
  Bitcoin would also make gittip international. Currently payouts work only in US. This severely limits the possibilities.
  - whit537 14y ago
    For reference, here's the Bitcoin ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14 https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14 And here's the non-US payouts ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/126 https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/126
    - whit537 14y ago
      (P.S. It's hosted on Heroku.)
juanbyrge 14y ago
Gittip is one of the most interesting charity concepts I've seen these past few weeks.
1qaz2wsx3edc 14y ago
The problem with gittip is the size of tips developers are collecting. Most developers have high-end salaries, IMO. The top people on gittip are collecting around $150/week. For these people that's probably converts to an hour or two a week of paid equivalent work. Great, so these developers can handle a couple of merge requests a week, but it doesn't actually enable them to work on something. Gittip also lacks focus, it doesn't commit a developer to work on something, it's merely a thank you, a donation. Donation-ware conversions are super low, you can't expect it to supplement anything. I think gittip is a neat idea, but I strongly feel that it is a doomed project unless something changes radically.
- whit537 14y ago
  > Most developers have high-end salaries, IMO. David Glick and I are currently the top two on Gittip, and neither of us have high-end salaries right now: http://blog.gittip.com/post/27072581481/i-believe-in-gittip http://blog.gittip.com/post/27072581481/i-believe-in-gittip http://glicksoftware.com/blog/goodbye-groundwire http://glicksoftware.com/blog/goodbye-groundwire #3 is Eric Holscher, and he's specifically using his gittips to host ReadTheDocs.org: http://ericholscher.com/blog/2012/sep/20/help-fund-read-docs/ http://ericholscher.com/blog/2012/sep/20/help-fund-read-docs... #5, Alex Gaynor, has a high-end salary (I'm assuming). So far it sounds like he's planning to use his gittips to attend an extra conference or two this year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438937 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438937 #7, Mike Bayer, has also said that his gittips are covering his infrastructure costs, for SQLAlchemy: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/10a32v/gittip_is_the_future/c6bvho1 http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/10a32v/gittip_is_the... > Gittip also lacks focus, it doesn't commit a developer to work on something, it's merely a thank you, a donation. Not sure where you're coming from on this. It sounds like you're talking about the focus and drive of someone receiving money on Gittip. The idea is that people worth giving money to on Gittip are people with a history of productive self-motivation, people that don't depend on coercive economic relationships to stay focused. Honestly, for me, there's nothing more humbling and motiving to get me out of bed in the morning than knowing that 100+ people believe in me enough to freely give me $1+ this week. That keeps me way more focused than a corporate salary ever did. > Donation-ware conversions are super low, you can't expect it to supplement anything. The numbers speak for themselves: Eric is at 125% of his goal, after about 48 hours of floating the idea of Gittip support with his userbase.
trotsky 14y ago
It's a pretty safe bet that the money is related to django as the last time i looked nearly all of the activity on gittip was django related. And if you're going to define "open company" I think I'd shoot a little higher than open source project + authorized_keys
- whit537 14y ago
  > [T]he last time i looked nearly all of the activity on gittip was django related. Quick rundown of the top ten, username - known for: whit537 - gittip davisagli - plone (python) readthedocs - readthedocs (python-centric) jnoller - psf (python) alex - pypy (python) mitsuhiko - flask, etc. (python) zzzeek - sqlalchemy (python) steveklabnik - ruby kennethreitz - requests, etc. (python) antirez - redis You could argue it's python-heavy, but not django-heavy. And besides, who cares? You gotta start somewhere. If you're plugged into different communities, then go spread the word. > And if you're going to define "open company" I think I'd shoot a little higher than open source project + authorized_keys Please do. :^)
  - kingkilr 14y ago
    FWIW I also do work on Django :)
    - whit537 14y ago
      Oops. Too late to edit. :^)

37 points by justinlilly 14y ago

PythonDeveloper 14y ago

LOL... Gittip.org is down, the URL you have in your post should be "gittip.com".

whit537 14y ago
I scrambled and wired up DNS for gittip.org, but not soon enough apparently, sorry. :^/ Oh well, ready for next time. :^)

jnbiche 14y ago

I noticed this a few weeks ago and like the idea. I hope it catches on. I think Gittip could really benefit from Bitcoin integration, since it would lower the cost of micropayments to almost nothing. EDIT: ANd yes, to be clear, Gittip is not down -- it's hosted by github if I'm not mistaken. The actual address is: http://www.gittip.com http://www.gittip.com

jerguismi 14y ago
Bitcoin would also make gittip international. Currently payouts work only in US. This severely limits the possibilities.
- whit537 14y ago
  For reference, here's the Bitcoin ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14 https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14 And here's the non-US payouts ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/126 https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/126
  - whit537 14y ago
    (P.S. It's hosted on Heroku.)

juanbyrge 14y ago

Gittip is one of the most interesting charity concepts I've seen these past few weeks.

1qaz2wsx3edc 14y ago

The problem with gittip is the size of tips developers are collecting. Most developers have high-end salaries, IMO. The top people on gittip are collecting around $150/week. For these people that's probably converts to an hour or two a week of paid equivalent work. Great, so these developers can handle a couple of merge requests a week, but it doesn't actually enable them to work on something. Gittip also lacks focus, it doesn't commit a developer to work on something, it's merely a thank you, a donation. Donation-ware conversions are super low, you can't expect it to supplement anything. I think gittip is a neat idea, but I strongly feel that it is a doomed project unless something changes radically.

whit537 14y ago
> Most developers have high-end salaries, IMO. David Glick and I are currently the top two on Gittip, and neither of us have high-end salaries right now: http://blog.gittip.com/post/27072581481/i-believe-in-gittip http://blog.gittip.com/post/27072581481/i-believe-in-gittip http://glicksoftware.com/blog/goodbye-groundwire http://glicksoftware.com/blog/goodbye-groundwire #3 is Eric Holscher, and he's specifically using his gittips to host ReadTheDocs.org: http://ericholscher.com/blog/2012/sep/20/help-fund-read-docs/ http://ericholscher.com/blog/2012/sep/20/help-fund-read-docs... #5, Alex Gaynor, has a high-end salary (I'm assuming). So far it sounds like he's planning to use his gittips to attend an extra conference or two this year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438937 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438937 #7, Mike Bayer, has also said that his gittips are covering his infrastructure costs, for SQLAlchemy: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/10a32v/gittip_is_the_future/c6bvho1 http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/10a32v/gittip_is_the... > Gittip also lacks focus, it doesn't commit a developer to work on something, it's merely a thank you, a donation. Not sure where you're coming from on this. It sounds like you're talking about the focus and drive of someone receiving money on Gittip. The idea is that people worth giving money to on Gittip are people with a history of productive self-motivation, people that don't depend on coercive economic relationships to stay focused. Honestly, for me, there's nothing more humbling and motiving to get me out of bed in the morning than knowing that 100+ people believe in me enough to freely give me $1+ this week. That keeps me way more focused than a corporate salary ever did. > Donation-ware conversions are super low, you can't expect it to supplement anything. The numbers speak for themselves: Eric is at 125% of his goal, after about 48 hours of floating the idea of Gittip support with his userbase.

trotsky 14y ago

It's a pretty safe bet that the money is related to django as the last time i looked nearly all of the activity on gittip was django related. And if you're going to define "open company" I think I'd shoot a little higher than open source project + authorized_keys

whit537 14y ago
> [T]he last time i looked nearly all of the activity on gittip was django related. Quick rundown of the top ten, username - known for: whit537 - gittip davisagli - plone (python) readthedocs - readthedocs (python-centric) jnoller - psf (python) alex - pypy (python) mitsuhiko - flask, etc. (python) zzzeek - sqlalchemy (python) steveklabnik - ruby kennethreitz - requests, etc. (python) antirez - redis You could argue it's python-heavy, but not django-heavy. And besides, who cares? You gotta start somewhere. If you're plugged into different communities, then go spread the word. > And if you're going to define "open company" I think I'd shoot a little higher than open source project + authorized_keys Please do. :^)
- kingkilr 14y ago
  FWIW I also do work on Django :)
  - whit537 14y ago
    Oops. Too late to edit. :^)