project donations
Posted by Barry Rowlingson on November 25, 2013
We have £1000 to play with. The three big systems we used are OJS, Django, and WordPress. If there's nothing else then we split it three ways.
OJS comes out of PKP, they have a "donate" button: http://pkp.sfu.ca/financial-support/
Django dev is funded by the foundation, they have a donate button: https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/
However... WordPress seem to want donations directed to theme and plugin authors, there's no central donation point for the core WP: http://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress#Donating_Money which means we could end up splitting it between the theme author (http://cyberchimps.com/responsive-theme/ - commercial dev, no obvious donation system) and any of the few plugins we used. Awkward?
OJS comes out of PKP, they have a "donate" button: http://pkp.sfu.ca/financial-support/
Django dev is funded by the foundation, they have a donate button: https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/
However... WordPress seem to want donations directed to theme and plugin authors, there's no central donation point for the core WP: http://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress#Donating_Money which means we could end up splitting it between the theme author (http://cyberchimps.com/responsive-theme/ - commercial dev, no obvious donation system) and any of the few plugins we used. Awkward?
Comments
Jo Cook on November 25, 2013:
I'd be happy with £500 each for OJS and Django- but if you think one is more deserving than the other I'd also be happy with that. I can't really make a judgement call though as I didn't have much to do with either of them.
Personally I think there's a valuable point to be made here- we're trying to donate and if people make it hard or non-transparent, then they will lose money!
Steven Feldman on November 25, 2013:
Barend Köbben on November 26, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on November 26, 2013: