New Initiative for Donations

I have put out a few times that we want to start launching targeted fundraising campaigns. Head over to the donate page and you'll notice a new option.

https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html

Flipcause provide a service aimed at assisting non-profits with fundraising. That's their core service anyway. There are other features built around it.

Part of that service includes targeted campaigns of the nature we want to start pushing, as well as the resources to create accompanying banners and other images. They also support peer-to-peer fundraising (which I hope to make use of in the future), ticket sales for events like DConf, online stores, and more.

The tile you see on the donate page is itself a campaign, a general fund campaign that I will keep open permanently. I'll soon be launching targeted campaigns that you can choose to support.

It's not a free service, obviously. We're currently on a free trial, but the Foundation will ultimately be paying $150/month. That's a significant investment and one that turned me off from evaluating the service when they first contacted the Foundation earlier this year. However, after evaluating their total package and some of the services they have in planning, it seems likely that the Foundation can stretch donated dollars farther in the long run than is possible now across the services currently in use. For example, with Open Collective we're paying 10% plus a 2-3% transaction fee per donation). Flipcause of course has credit card transaction fees, but they allow donors the option of covering it and further provide a guaranteed minimum for us such that if not enough donors cover the fees to meet the minimum total from all donations in a given period, they'll refund us the difference.

In order to see that benefit, we'll need for a majority of our donations to come in through Flipcause. The other options aren't going away, but if you are considering a new donation to the D Language Foundation, choosing to send it through Flipcause will be a bigger help right now.

So I encourage all potential donors to please consider the Flipcause option, even if you've donated through one of the other options in the past. And yes, if you donate through Flipcause you can still get the benefits listed in the descriptions of the donor levels on our Open Collective page:

https://opencollective.com/dlang

And the direct link to the general fund campaign:

https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDMzMzE=

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 09:18:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > I have put out a few times that we want to start launching targeted fundraising campaigns. Head over to the donate page and you'll notice a new option. > > [...] Looking forward to the targeted campaigns, hopefully they will replace and do better than bountysource. Any effort underway to take Bitcoin Cash, Ether, or Ripple as donations? The current payment options seem fairly antiquated: credit cards, wire transfers, and the like.

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 09:18:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > I have put out a few times that we want to start launching targeted fundraising campaigns. Head over to the donate page and you'll notice a new option. > > ... > > And the direct link to the general fund campaign: > > https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDMzMzE= Hi Mike, thanks a lot for adding this donation option. Campaigns will help a lot. Do you plan to add a Dub campaign? Here we currently miss helping hands to get some pull requests (60) done and solve some of the open issues (400). Kind regards André

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:12:50 UTC, Joakim wrote: > > Any effort underway to take Bitcoin Cash, Ether, or Ripple as donations? The current payment options seem fairly antiquated: credit cards, wire transfers, and the like. Not that I'm aware of. I'd hardly call credit cards antiquated, though :-)

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:16:50 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: > > Do you plan to add a Dub campaign? > Here we currently miss helping hands to get some pull requests (60) > done and solve some of the open issues (400). > In all likelihood, yes, at some point. At this moment I'm not sure which campaign(s) we'll launch first or exactly what they'll look like. I'm working out some details and will hopefully get my list of potential targets prioritized and sorted before too much longer.

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:18:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:12:50 UTC, Joakim wrote: > >> >> Any effort underway to take Bitcoin Cash, Ether, or Ripple as donations? The current payment options seem fairly antiquated: credit cards, wire transfers, and the like. > > Not that I'm aware of. I'd hardly call credit cards antiquated, though :-) 60-year old tech seems pretty old to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card#BankAmericard_and_Master_Charge I'm a long-term skeptic on cryptocurrencies, but they do make for easy and cheap payments, particularly for a tech audience. You should put one of the interns on integrating it.

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 09:18:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > I'll soon be launching targeted campaigns that you can choose to support. I look forward to donating at that time. Hopefully there will be a good selection of projects to choose from. There probably won't be much substitution of donations among projects, because we tend to donate to things we feel are valuable, and not so much if we don't see the impact being important. I am curious about the $5/hour thing. How is it possible to get good quality development for $5/hour?

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 13:19:27 UTC, bachmeier wrote: > > I am curious about the $5/hour thing. How is it possible to get good quality development for $5/hour? That comes from the bottom of the donation page: https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html I assume it has to do with the total value of a scholarship in relation to how much time they put into their projects.

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