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by whit537 14y ago
Exactly. You can expect my secret police to visit you tonight. ;-)
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by whit537 14y ago
This is an important open question. Some thinking here: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27
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by whit537 14y ago
From the post: "An open company differs from an open source project in that an open company is a formal legal entity, and needn’t be about software." The set of employees of an open company is much, much smaller than the set of people worki
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by whit537 14y ago
The incentive is the same as open source programmers have to work for free. RE: non-profits ... from the post: "An open company differs from a non-profit organization in that an open company does not itself accept donations, and it does not
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by whit537 14y ago
:^)
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by whit537 14y ago
Phew. :-)
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by whit537 14y ago
Or you're on Arch Linux? Does this ticket relate? https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/140
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by whit537 14y ago
I daresay the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania disagrees with you about whether Zeta Design & Development, LLC is a company. Cost for non-employees is "allowed" for the practical reason that if it weren't, an open company couldn't participa
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by whit537 14y ago
My point about benefit to society vs. mutual benefit was a technical one about the definition of an open company vis-a-vis the definition of a cooperative, "an autonomous association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual soc
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by whit537 14y ago
+1 added here: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/65 The basic Gittip roadmap is to get the full circle working once with the most common case (credit card in, ACH out), and then iterate from there.
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by whit537 14y ago
:-)
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by whit537 14y ago
Can't speak for GitHub, of course. They did try an experiment with Pledgie a few years back, but that fizzled: https://github.com/blog/57-getting-paid-the-open-source-way/
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by whit537 14y ago
Here's my take: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4239336
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by whit537 14y ago
> I see no reason why you couldn't just represent the values separately on admin panel... "You are 'earning' $200 a week on GitTip, and also got $50 extra in your tip jar this week." Right, this is how we would do it. I've reopened this
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by whit537 14y ago
Ooh ... he joined Gittip a month ago. :^D https://www.gittip.com/sandal/
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by whit537 14y ago
Thanks for the Gregory Brown tip. :^)
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by whit537 14y ago
A) My current funding goal is $2,000.00 per week, not per month. B) I want to make the X-factor of freedom available to as many as possible. I think Zuck won the startup game. How are you going to top him? With an even more bloated IPO? Tim
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by whit537 14y ago
Looked into this, forget why it didn't make sense. Reticketed: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/186
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by whit537 14y ago
Ticket is: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/167 .
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by whit537 14y ago
Preferably on the (newly updated) GitHub ticket: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180 :-)
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by whit537 14y ago
I'd like to see someone address this.
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by whit537 14y ago
Amen amen.
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by whit537 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. :-)
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by whit537 14y ago
A +1 added to https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180 > minimum monthly charge Newly ticketed: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/185 > strongly focus on enterprise plans Existing ticket: https://gith
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by whit537 14y ago
> And why is there a max tip amount? To maintain "no strings attached." No one person or entity should unduly influence donees.
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by whit537 14y ago
Another +1 for https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180 . I'm sensing a theme. :-) Re: creating a business: My goal is to find a living on Gittip directly, not by taking a cut. See: http://blog.gittip.com/post/27072581481/i-be
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by whit537 14y ago
Gah! Title changing feels gross. :-( Original: "After 7 weeks, 100+ people are funding open source devs $600/wk on Gittip.com" Problem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102013
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by whit537 14y ago
The rejoinder would be that, unlike my bartender, I could conceivably have 100,000 people tip me $0.25 through Gittip. When you compare $0.25 to a Facebook "Like", it's a lot more valuable. That said, I appreciate people who want to make ev
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by whit537 14y ago
I want to broaden beyond GitHub: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/80 Trying to get the payment flow nailed first.
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by whit537 14y ago
We do have a ticket for mobile payments, actually. https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/111 Who are the players here?

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