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by whit537 14y ago
Thanks for feeding back. I'll try to do better next time.
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by whit537 14y ago
Here's the main ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14 Basically I'm open to it if the bitcoin are transparently converted to dollars. Code talks. ;-)
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by whit537 14y ago
Ticketed: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/195
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by whit537 14y ago
There's a distinction between truly supporting a person, and being part of a long tail of "oh well here's a few cents." I see us trying to feel out how to work with those two cases. My current thinking is that the long tail of support for a
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by whit537 14y ago
Love it, thank you. Noted here: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138
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by whit537 14y ago
Correct. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by whit537 14y ago
If you're a pain in the ass then I'm sittin' on sunshine. Definitely could do a better job of converting traffic. Don't feel like I have that nailed yet. :-/
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by whit537 14y ago
You can set individual gifts to zero. They're collected together on your profile page: https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html You can also turn off gifts entirely without actually forgetting them by deleting your credit card: https://www.g
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by whit537 14y ago
Okay, should give you a message now if you're anon. https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html
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by whit537 14y ago
Agreed. Working on it: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27
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by whit537 14y ago
Gittip is designed to pay the mortgage for donees, and mortgages are recurring. I expect we'll mix in one-offs eventually. Here's the ticket for that: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/5 Donations are anonymous in the parti
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by whit537 14y ago
If you're already authenticated then it redirects to your profile page.
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by whit537 14y ago
Minimum raised to $1.00. See here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292843
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by whit537 14y ago
Gittip is a site for micro-subscriptions to fund open source developers. I got a lot of feedback this week on HN and GitHub that the minimum subscription should be raised from $0.25 to $1.00: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issue
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Gittip minimum raised from $0.25 to $1.00(gittip.com)
62 points by whit537 14y ago|53 comments
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by whit537 14y ago
1) Afaict everyone depends on third parties. Even if I pick wild blackberries, where do I get the containers to put them in? 2) Sunk cost. The intention is to factor out wages and profit. 2.a) Maybe use Kickstarter here? 2.b) The community
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by whit537 14y ago
Nothing's wrong with making money? I'm currently looking for $2,000.00 per week myself: https://www.gittip.com/whit537/ ;^)
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by whit537 14y ago
I think you're making a distinction between donations to an operating fund and donations to an endowment fund. The Pittsburgh Foundation (and presumably community foundations in general) do accept donations, but they focus on endowment fund
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by whit537 14y ago
whisper I tip dead people! whisper
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by whit537 14y ago
For the record, I did receive an email from WePay in response to this comment: "I realize that there's nothing to be done now, but wanted you to know that we do take customer service seriously and apologize for the lack of follow up."
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by whit537 14y ago
You have conclusively exhausted the possibilities.
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by whit537 14y ago
When I search on Google for "Pittsburgh Community Foundation" the closest I find is "The Pittsburgh Foundation": http://pittsburghfoundation.org/ Is that who you are referring to? They do claim to be a community foundation.[0] However, I'
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by whit537 14y ago
"[...] whether that's at Amazon or in another industry." Because, you know, Amazon is the only player in its industry. Oh wait ...
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by whit537 14y ago
Probably yes re: early MediaWiki. It's not a non-profit because it's not registered as such with a government.
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by whit537 14y ago
Is this what you mean? "Non-profit organizations typically fall into one of two categories: public and private. While a public non-profit organization receives the majority of its funding from the general public, a private non-profit organi
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by whit537 14y ago
De jure, they're not. De facto, they do. No?
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by whit537 14y ago
Ah! Wish I had caught wind of RubyConf. Looks great. Oh well, next year. :^)
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by whit537 14y ago
s/employee/open source programmer
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by whit537 14y ago
I'm a regular at PghPy (meeting tomorrow night! :-) and I spoke at PghTechFest last month. You?
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by whit537 14y ago
I've added this to the ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/140

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