Hi, On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Steffen Möller wrote: > there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social > micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that > with respect to their clicks in the web. I feel that Debian should > somehow participate with that, i.e. we should have links whenever we > display a package in the bts or in the pts, that allows the user to > "flattr" or otherwise support that package. The amount collected should > then go to upstream. Maybe we should not do this for all packages but > only when upstream asks for it.
I don't think we should do that. But Debian might want to use Flattr to collect donations of Flattr users (but those donations would be for Debian itself). See thread on debian-www: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2010/07/threads.html#00086 We should not put Flattr buttons everywhere, only in the usual donation page. That said I plan to write a software that scans the installed packages, and propose to flattr the corresponding upstream projects that are using Flattr. This would be a part of the Flattr Foss project (http://raphaelhertzog.com/flattr-foss/). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100817192233.gb24...@rivendell
