Fund your own project

[chadwhitacre]

One possible use case is for a company to set aside a budget to compensate contributors to its open source projects. In this case the money would be coming from the company rather than from payments received on Gratipay.

[chadwhitacre]

Folding #4324 into this ...

Reticketed from gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#432 (comment):

The flip side would be an organization that wanted to use us for payroll but not for payments. @timothyfcook has asked for this before. He wants to use Gratipay to distribute payroll for projects that are grant funded outside of Gratipay.

Also cropped up in slack (cc: @simonmichael).

[chadwhitacre]

+1 in private email (from someone at a top-25 Internet company) :

One of the things that I've always been interested in is not just "<Company> gives $x to project", but also the flip side of that too. I would like a way for "<Company> to give $x developer, for their contributions to <Company> project".

Not just giving back to the projects that we use, but to the developers that donate their time to our open source projects.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @bcomnes in slack.

[chadwhitacre]

Seems like this is related to adding funds at any time (#113).

[bcomnes]

Or possibly drawing funds from a project as a member at any time. Maybe I'm still stuck in thinking in terms of bank accounts though.