> 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

> 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.