Funding Solus Development

JoshStrobl

After much anticipation, in this blog post we announce the availability of community funding opportunities!

https://getsol.us/2021/05/29/funding-solus-development

jppelt

JoshStrobl @DataDrake Thank you for doing this and allowing us to contribute. I've pledged monthly and hope to continue seeing this awesome distro flourish. So happy to be a (small) part of this endeavor.

Lucien_Lachance

those sums mentioned, are they monthly?

Girtablulu

Lucien_Lachance the tiers are monthly but you can do a single donation as well

Lucien_Lachance

an additional perk that id find interesting would be a me@getsol.us email addy, i guess u probably thought abouyt that already

JoshStrobl

Lucien_Lachance We use GSuite for Business and pay for other functionality than just email, so not really something we would want to open the door to, or manage (like closing email accounts when people cancel, open when they join, etc.)

Neumie

Sweet. Fingers crossed contributions go well 🙂.

algent

Congratulations to the Team for this important step!

kaktuspalme

Finally, one of the most asked questions has been solved. 🙂 I hope it will grow quickly.

Lucien_Lachance

i dont mean to make things more complicated than necessary but im uncomfortable with automatic monthly payments, not least cos my income varies a lot. but an annual non-automatic contribution of $300 (12x$25)is doable, at least this year it is. but i guess then id miss out on the perks? how would that work?

Staudey

Lucien_Lachance Well, you can make one-time donations but whether you can enjoy perks that way I don't know.

JoshStrobl

Lucien_Lachance Unfortunately the one-time donations aren't part of any tier and thus perks aren't a part of it. Only the ones designated "membership", which are monthly, have perks associated. It is billed monthly since generally it is easier for people to budget around and is easier on the administrative side, especially with the tooling.

@WetGeek The contributor's name is published with various tier information in the public JSON however as far as I am aware that can be anything. The email, as far as I can tell, is not public and is only accessible in our CSV export, which is what we will be using to add people to SendGrid mailing lists to facilitate email delivery required associated with the perk tiers (since OpenCollective does not provide these tools themselves). You can donate anonymously / incognito, which keeps it out of the public data, however we still see it in our export.

gsf

cheers on this, will gladly support in future

WetGeek

It's not clear from the Payment Info page whether a different name and email address can be used for the payment, or whether it's taken from the full name and address from the profile. Can they be different? (E.g., there's no field apparent for "Name on the card," so I assume the full name from the profile is used?)

For example, none of my credit cards would recognize WetGeek as my name, and PayPal does not have an account for my wetgeek email address. But those are the name and email address I would want to use in a Solus-related profile.

I ask because the profile page says the name and email address will be made public. I don't necessarily want my full name and primary email address to be exposed to thousands of Solus users I don't know.

h3o

WetGeek I used my forum username and payment was processed through my credit card.

WetGeek

h3o

Thanks. I'll give that a try. I assume they didn't try to use your forum username for your credit card. That answers my question.

EDIT: Indeed, that worked just fine. That leaves me wondering what name they used when they charged that to my credit card. There's no way that should have been approved for someone named WetGeek.

Brucehankins

Really happy to have this option finally!

Lucien_Lachance

JoshStrobl screw the perks. $300 sent with the intention of doing so again in a year*

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not guaranteed

Brucehankins

Lucien_Lachance that's what I did, a bit less though. Hoping I can contribute another $100 in a few months.

seanragout

Just signed up as as a backer, very happy to do so. This project deserves all the help and thanks possible.