> That is rather easy, see: "https://www.gentoo.org/donate/", my question > is to whom does this money go to? Oops, what I meant to write was that it only goes to fund that which is written on the side of the page, so in short mostly the Gentoo Infra's stuff. On 2/15/23 23:36, Maciej Barć wrote: > Hi Anna! > > Gentoo Foundation should take care of this problem. The issue of funding > Gentoo developers was here for years but nobody stepped up to refine the > funding policy. > I've also heard that GF will never touch this because it is against the > foundation's laws, "because Gentoo cannot pay itself"... shrug. > Hopefully somebody will correct me on this, because I wish that GF could > found at least (non-remote) hardware for development usage. > >> I thought that it could be nice if users could easily discover how to >> pay donations to Gentoo developers and package maintainers. > > That is rather easy, see: "https://www.gentoo.org/donate/", my question > is to whom does this money go to? > > Another way is to check out developers' wiki pages, some of them put eg > Paypal info there. > > > On 2/15/23 20:06, Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova wrote: >> Some developers were lucky enough to be employed by a company that pays >> them for working on Gentoo full-time. But most are left out and their >> work on Gentoo is entirely volunteer. >> >> I thought that it could be nice if users could easily discover how to >> pay donations to Gentoo developers and package maintainers. >> >> There are a few approaches: >> >> 1) Special commands (like `npm fund`), which are never run by users so >>     they are kinda useless. >> >> 2) Informing users about funding opportunities via post-install >>     messages. This is relatively efficient but obtrusive and can lead to >>     hate campaigns (what happened to the core-js developer). >> >> 3) Fundraising campaigns, which I know nothing about :) >> >> What do you think? >> > -- Have a great day! ~ Maciej XGQT Barć xgqt@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (emacs, math, ml, scheme, sci)