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Welp there are people trying to address this, https://www.gittip.com/ https://www.gittip.com/ for instance.

• benatkin 13y ago
  Gittip is chump change. The amount of money raised so far for rvm's current crowdfunding is about the amount that the top receiver on Gittip might get in 20 weeks. https://www.gittip.com/ https://www.gittip.com/ You say Gittip is trying. That's true, but I think they slipped into a slow growth pattern months ago. At its current rate it would take years for it to be a viable way of funding more than a handful of open source hackers.
  • rurounijones 13y ago
    > The amount of money raised so far for rvm's current crowdfunding is about the amount that the top receiver on Gittip might get in 20 weeks. https://www.gittip.com/ https://www.gittip.com/ That is not a technical problem, that is a social one. The OP said > But a one-shot charitable fundraiser is a slim reed on which to sustain a project like this. And he is correct, the gittip style is probably better for long-term but faces problems as you pointed out, although again, I do not think any of them are technical in nature. (Probably the biggest problem being the complete lack of companies on gittip et al and the feeble amounts, in terms of companies' budgets anyway.)
    • benatkin 13y ago
      This supports my point. My point is that Gittip is irrelevant and there's no reason to believe it will become relevant. If it were a technical problem and yet had reached its current level of success, I would think that if they fixed their technical problems, it might become relevant. Since it's a non-technical problem (social problem, positioning problem), how to fix it is unknown. The quickest path would very likely involve tearing the whole thing down and starting over again.