From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Kickstarter for Emacs Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:59:40 +0800 Message-ID: <87wr5dfm9v.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334739609 11544 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2012 09:00:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 18 11:00:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKQk6-0005Ad-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:00:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37041 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKQk6-000676-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:00:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56819) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKQk0-00066s-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKQju-0007Hq-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:59:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:47640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKQjt-0007Hk-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [155.69.17.204] (port=56800 helo=ulysses) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKQjs-0005GH-1D; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:59:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Tom's message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:50:24 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149743 Archived-At: Tom writes: > So it looks like it would be suitable for smaller projects too and > apparently people do use it to fund software projects like this one > which aims to create a better coffeescript compiler So far, I haven't seen much call from individual Emacs developers for financial support, but individual developers (e.g. of third-party packages) can always set up their own donations mechanism, rather than using Kickstarter, which as far as I can tell is just a way to funnel money to Kickstarter Inc and Amazon (who take a whopping 10% cut from donations). Their PR campaign sure is impressive, though. If there is interest in funding anything at the Emacs project level, the FSF has set up a mechanism for donating to individual GNU packages, currently used by GNU Octave and GNU Telephony; see https://my.fsf.org/associate/donate/working-together But, as I said, I don't currently see much need. (OT: I believe Octave's maintainer is supported by donations, so I strongly encourage anyone who uses that software to donate.)