We should have a wiki page with a list of links for donations and financial support of FreeCAD, BlenderBIM and other AEC open source projects and developers, (patreon links, paypal, links, etc). Is it ok?
@duncan said: @bitacovir maybe that info could be on the software pages rather than in one place? Would that make sense?
Like I said. My intention is to give visibility to people who is individually working on Open source projects. I have found very hard show where you can visualise all the links to support to this people. To put the list in the software directory that already is full of information could make very hard to highlight their names...
I agree with the approach that @bitacovir is taking. Because on a donation page, you'd want to list individual contributors as well as organisational accounts, and perhaps a short sentence describing what each contributor specialises in. If all this was included in the main directory, I would imagine it gets rather long :)
@Moult said:
... If all this was included in the main directory, I would imagine it gets rather long :)
I understood @duncan differently. I think he meant that a link for donations should be in the specific wiki page of a particular project, say, the donation link for FreeCAD would be in the FreeCAD page, for IfcOpenShell it would be in the in the IfcOpenShell page, for Blender-BIM Addon, it would be in the BlenderBIM_Add-on page, etc.
So the donation links are in the page of the software; otherwise we will end up creating a huge list of links similar to AEC_Free_Software_directory, and this list is already pretty long.
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That's a great idea! Like a donation directory :)
Done. The idea is to give more visibility for people (and their Patreon accounts) who are working as volunteers for these Open Source projects.
https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Donation_Directory
@bitacovir maybe that info could be on the software pages rather than in one place? Would that make sense?
Like I said. My intention is to give visibility to people who is individually working on Open source projects. I have found very hard show where you can visualise all the links to support to this people. To put the list in the software directory that already is full of information could make very hard to highlight their names...
I agree with the approach that @bitacovir is taking. Because on a donation page, you'd want to list individual contributors as well as organisational accounts, and perhaps a short sentence describing what each contributor specialises in. If all this was included in the main directory, I would imagine it gets rather long :)
I understood @duncan differently. I think he meant that a link for donations should be in the specific wiki page of a particular project, say, the donation link for FreeCAD would be in the FreeCAD page, for IfcOpenShell it would be in the in the IfcOpenShell page, for Blender-BIM Addon, it would be in the BlenderBIM_Add-on page, etc.
So the donation links are in the page of the software; otherwise we will end up creating a huge list of links similar to AEC_Free_Software_directory, and this list is already pretty long.
Wonder if Werner has a donation account for FreeCAD ?
@vocx ah - yes I had misinterpreted. In that case, I agree with @duncan to include it on the individual software pages instead :)
FreeCAD wiki: Donate