Setup on sponsor button for each project

[thijstriemstra]

"Sponsorships help your community know how to financially support this repository."

See settings of Github repository.

[thijstriemstra]

Looks like https://opencollective.com might be a good one to handle this? My username is thijs-triemstra.

For open source projects:

We have created the Open Source Collective 501c6), a non-profit umbrella organization, to serve the 
open source community. To join, you need at least 100 stars on Github (or other equivilant evidence of 
your project's validity), and to respect our guidelines.

Fees: 10% of funds raised. Half goes to Open Collective Inc to continue improving the software paltform, 
and half to the Open Source Collective to cover its legal and financial services.

All available options:

# These are supported funding model platforms

github: # Replace with up to 4 GitHub Sponsors-enabled usernames e.g., [user1, user2]
patreon: # Replace with a single Patreon username
open_collective: # Replace with a single Open Collective username
ko_fi: # Replace with a single Ko-fi username
tidelift: # Replace with a single Tidelift platform-name/package-name e.g., npm/babel
community_bridge: # Replace with a single Community Bridge project-name e.g., cloud-foundry
liberapay: # Replace with a single Liberapay username
issuehunt: # Replace with a single IssueHunt username
otechie: # Replace with a single Otechie username
custom: # Replace with up to 4 custom sponsorship URLs e.g., ['link1', 'link2']

[thijstriemstra]

@rm-hull thoughts on this?

[rm-hull]

Not really sure about how I feel about this, more out of ignorance than anything else, but some initial thoughts/questions are:

• if someone sponsors a new feature (for example) is there an obligation for that feature to be completed?
• what should the funds collected through sponsorship be spent on? New devices? Given to people who implement requested features? Given to people who actively help answering newbie questions?
• do funds collected need to be accounted for and declared on tax returns?
• for luma projects specifically, is there enough demand for new features or devices to support sponsorship (i.e. is it worth the effort)?
• who is going to administer such a sponsorship scheme?
• should we create one big mono-repo with all sub-projects subsumed first?

Given that, happy to trial it for something like 6 months