News - December 2016

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This is Liberapay's news thread, its purpose is to help us achieve #29.

cc @liberapay/media-managers

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La rémunération des auteurs de jeux libres avec Liberapay

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Ubuntu-fr has joined Liberapay! Let's welcome them in French on social media.

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I've retweeted https://twitter.com/ubuntufrorg/status/809538449250385927 from @.liberapaye

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(Copied from #95 (comment))

https://twitter.com/liberapaye/status/814084163947134976

Today was the last "payday" of 2016, here are some stats on our first year of activity: … (1/7)

More than 500 people and 60 teams have joined Liberapay. 124 users sent and/or received money in this last week of 2016. (2/7)

More than 17000€ have entered Liberapay. Of those 4400€ have already been paid out to the bank accounts of 35 recipients. (3/7)

Unfortunately about 7000€ had to be refunded because of fraud or the recipient getting banned by our payment processor. (4/7)

As of now 256 weekly donations (or pledges) are set up and funded, totaling 386€ per week. Many thanks to the 91 donors! (5/7)

Since we launched in February more than 900 commits landed in our main code repository: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/graphs/contributors?from=2016-02-03&to=2016-12-28&type=c (6/7)

We, the Liberapay team, have received 766€. If you think we deserve more than that, please donate and retweet: https://liberapay.com/Liberapay/donate (7/7)