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.
Funding Solus Development
@Lucien_Lachance Given the amount you donated amounted to basically Crew levels, I manually updated your tier in the SendGrid import to Crew. You should get the emails when they get sent out. Shoot me an email joshua [at] getsol.us
if you don't get one today and I'll sort you out.
Same goes for everyone else here. If you donated for a year and it amounts to tier amount x 12, send me an email and I will see what I can do personally. I'll also end up creating a "manual" tier and tweak the SendGrid MLs a bit so I can better keep track of it, but I'd rather do that than all of you be out some fancy ISOs.
Any plans for a merch shop? I would absolutely buy a Solus hoodie if I knew proceeds were going towards development and infrastructure funding.
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JoshStrobl
struggling a bit with the downloads, they die at around 50% and firefox wont resume. luckily wget resumes. heres the wget error: 2021-06-04 15:11:18 (9.93 MB/s) - Connection closed at byte 1080859316. Retrying.
happened about 4 times
oh and thanks for the manual add!
edit: for others strugging, to use wget the download url would be https://user:pass@getsol.us...
Brucehankins No plans.
@Lucien_Lachance Thanks, will take a look.
@Lucien_Lachance Just an update. I did make some changes that may help, however I was able to download it successfully regardless. I am 100% open to working to improve it and provide other mechanisms for OpenCollective members to download it though!
JoshStrobl
no issues downloading this morning. dont know if its the changes u made or other factors
Good news - finally. That looks like a great move.
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Hello everyone! I'm Georgiy Bogdanoff known as Dr.Sheppard, i'm living in Russia and i have one question. Fintech is not well developed in Russia (i knew, because i'm working in one of largest bank of country). 2 payment methods are available on OpenCollective: credit card and PayPal (working in Russia). What is the best way to donate so that Solus gets the most out of the amount?
update:
$3.00 USD Stripe fees $0.39 USD, PayPal fees $0.42 USD;
$5.00 USD Stripe fees $0.45 USD, Paypal fees $0.50 USD
$10.00 USD Stripe fees $0.59 USD, Paypal fees $0.69 USD
George Generally credit card processing fees are lower, however IIRC OpenCollective refunds processing fees regardless.
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GeorgeYou have to consider the amount you are going to donate.
Looking at the current transactions we can see that, Solus get:
for 1$ - 0.56% of 1$.
for 3$ - 0.75%
for 5$ - 0.8%
for 10$ - 0.83%
for 25$ - 0.84%
for 50$ - 0.85%
for 300$ - 0.86%
So I think one time 12$ is better than 1$ monthly.
Not sure about Credit Card and Paypal.
Been looking forward to this (weirdly) for a while, i've been a big fan of Solus since the early days, its my daily driver for work and home, glad i get to give something back even if its just a few quid to keep the lights on, keep up the frankly awesome work
Only $90k more all! C'mon!
Signed up for the Beta tester tier, bumped it to $11 dollars to cover the fee's and stuff!
Do emails get sent retroactively or do I need to wait til the next email gets sent.
Thanks for all your work
cdashrowe They do not get sent retroactively, you'll get some ISOs tomorrow when I do the next snapshots
@JoshStrobl Ah awesome, thank you! And thanks again for all the work you do, it's extremely impressive
@JoshStrobl Thank you for the awesome work you do! Solus has ended me distro hopping! Also got me to sign up as a Beta Tester so I can see the new goodies before everyone else!
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Hello, I would like to fund Solus on my own random timetable instead of monthly payments. How can it be accomplished? ... Alright. I found the answer already although it was a little hidden: https://opencollective.com/getsolus/donate