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Add Sponsor button to GitHub #544

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@liskin liskin commented May 14, 2021

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These past months I've spent a lot of time working on xmonad and I feel like I've done a lot. This is, however, not sustainable long term. :-(

I'd like to try making my GitHub Sponsors profile a bit more visible, hoping that would allow me to continue dedicating time to xmonad.

I know that the correct approach probably is for the xmonad project to find a fiscal sponsor like the Software Freedom Conservancy or Open Collective or something and accept donations as a project, and then redistribute that to people, but I don't think the project has enough momentum to do something as complicated as that. :-/


@xmonad/core @slotThe @TheMC47 Are you folks okay with me doing this? Can I put that on https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad as well? Would you like to add your profile as well (I checked all of your profiles and none of you have a Sponsors profile yet, though)?

These past months I've spent a lot of time working on xmonad and I feel
like I've done a lot. This is, however, not sustainable long term. :-(

I'd like to try making my GitHub Sponsors profile a bit more visible,
hoping that would allow me to continue dedicating time to xmonad.

I know that the correct approach probably is for the xmonad project to
find a fiscal sponsor like the Software Freedom Conservancy or Open
Collective or something and accept donations as a project, and then
redistribute that to people, but I don't think the project has enough
momentum to do something as complicated as that. :-/
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I'm not averse to it and in fact kinda wish I had my shit together enough to do so myself and maybe get working on some of the ideas I've had including proper EWMH layer (including floating layer) support.

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TheMC47 commented May 14, 2021

I'm personally fine with this, and I think it's fair regarding the amount of work you're putting in.

I know that the correct approach probably is for the xmonad project to find a fiscal sponsor like the Software Freedom Conservancy or Open Collective or something and accept donations as a project, and then redistribute that to people, but I don't think the project has enough momentum to do something as complicated as that. :-/

Well, at least not for time being. However, If a big number of people want to also get sponsored, then it might be more fair and transparent to set up something like that. But it's not worth the hassle yet

Although not directly related, we should also review the credits section in the website and update it (maybe split it into a "Hall of Fame" for the no-longer active maintainers and a "Team" section for the current maintainers, but I haven't been around that long to know how to classify them)

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liskin commented May 14, 2021

However, If a big number of people want to also get sponsored, then it might be more fair and transparent to set up something like that.

Not just that, it will actually be necessary as GitHub won't let us put more than 4 accounts in there anyway. I was thinking that if this problem ever arises, we might just sponsor one another to distribute the income. It'd be lovely to have that problem, but I wouldn't kid myself just now… :-)

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psibi commented May 14, 2021

@xmonad/core @slotThe @TheMC47 Are you folks okay with me doing this?

I'm fine with it and don't see any issues.

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slotThe commented May 14, 2021 via email

@liskin liskin added this to the v0.17 milestone May 18, 2021
liskin added a commit to liskin/xmonad that referenced this pull request May 18, 2021
These past months I've spent a lot of time working on xmonad¹ and I feel
like I've done a lot. This is, however, not sustainable long term. :-(

¹) primarily xmonad-contrib and the community in general

I'd like to try making my GitHub Sponsors profile a bit more visible,
hoping that would allow me to continue dedicating time to xmonad.

I know that the correct approach probably is for the xmonad project to
find a fiscal sponsor like the Software Freedom Conservancy or Open
Collective or something and accept donations as a project, and then
redistribute that to people, but I don't think the project has enough
momentum to do something as complicated as that. :-/

Related: xmonad/xmonad-contrib#544
@liskin liskin merged commit 5b17164 into xmonad:master May 21, 2021
@liskin liskin deleted the pr/funding branch May 21, 2021 11:22
colonelpanic8 pushed a commit to colonelpanic8/xmonad that referenced this pull request Jul 11, 2021
These past months I've spent a lot of time working on xmonad¹ and I feel
like I've done a lot. This is, however, not sustainable long term. :-(

¹) primarily xmonad-contrib and the community in general

I'd like to try making my GitHub Sponsors profile a bit more visible,
hoping that would allow me to continue dedicating time to xmonad.

I know that the correct approach probably is for the xmonad project to
find a fiscal sponsor like the Software Freedom Conservancy or Open
Collective or something and accept donations as a project, and then
redistribute that to people, but I don't think the project has enough
momentum to do something as complicated as that. :-/

Related: xmonad/xmonad-contrib#544
liskin added a commit to xmonad/xmonad that referenced this pull request Aug 15, 2021
Replaced with https://github.com/xmonad/.github/blob/main/FUNDING.yml,
which points to xmonad's funding platforms instead of mine.

Related: #295
Related: xmonad/xmonad-contrib#544
liskin added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 15, 2021
Replaced with https://github.com/xmonad/.github/blob/main/FUNDING.yml,
which points to xmonad's funding platforms instead of mine.

Related: xmonad/xmonad#295
Related: #544
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