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?
> 

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