Funding Solus Development

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When I read the weekly snapshots part, I wasn't sure if this was late April Fools. I know you've said you don't do April Fools, but iirc you said you won't do weekly snapshots either.. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Just kidding, good to hear you found a suitable platform and got the donation thing finally sorted out. Repository mirrors also sound very good.

brent

@JoshStrobl Considering the other options you had (501c3, etc) this is quite bold: "we have come to the conclusion that the Open Collective platform represents the best fit for our international team and project." Far out!
Congratulations, I'm very excited for you and DD and Solus. From modest beginnings, I can't wait to see what happens next.

JoshStrobl

@hsmenon Thanks for the comment, however I went ahead and removed it for being off-topic. We are not interested at this moment in time in shipping Solus on any hardware devices however (hypothetical ones or otherwise), given we do not current have the two-stage installer we want (not to mention we would want to develop some form of a support contract, have the hardware in our hands for validation, etc.). In terms of contact, I have joshua AT getsol.us as my Solus email address.

Scotty-Trees

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only USD? why no other currencies? 🤔

WetGeek

[deleted] only USD? why no other currencies? 🤔

Maybe because the Open Collective is based in California?

Unless you intend to find a way to contribute currency somehow, it probably doesn't matter. Every financial institution can easily convert your contribution to USD, whether it's done by PayPal, credit card, etc.

DataDrake

WetGeek Maybe because the Open Collective is based in California?

This. The Open Source Collective is a registered nonprofit based out of California. Sites like Patreon might convert the costs to your local currency, but it will ultimately get converted to the currency of the financial entity receiving it.

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.

JoshStrobl

@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.

Lucien_Lachance

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

Any plans for a merch shop? I would absolutely buy a Solus hoodie if I knew proceeds were going towards development and infrastructure funding.

JoshStrobl

Brucehankins No plans.

@Lucien_Lachance Thanks, will take a look.

JoshStrobl

@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!

Lucien_Lachance

JoshStrobl
no issues downloading this morning. dont know if its the changes u made or other factors

noise617

Good news - finally. That looks like a great move.

Junglist

George

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

JoshStrobl

George Generally credit card processing fees are lower, however IIRC OpenCollective refunds processing fees regardless.

algent

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.

icaho

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

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