On 08/17/2010 09:22 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 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
Thank you for the pointer. So, let's go and have the SPI also feature an offer to use flattr. What is needed for that - nothing, right? They should just no have any currency conversion loss, if avoidable. > 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/). I like it. It may be a better solution, indeed. Steffen -- 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/4c6b0f1e.7000...@gmx.de
