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* Re: Meta guix: making money with GNU Guix: slightly off topic
@ 2021-04-11 16:42 jgart
  2021-04-11 17:26 ` Ryan Prior
  2021-04-11 18:10 ` jgart
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: jgart @ 2021-04-11 16:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

I think one sustainable (no pun intended) way to proceed is to package fosspay for guix and write a service for it:

https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/fosspay/

I created a public kanban board entry for it below to get started:

https://board.disroot.org/project/guix-packaging/us/677?kanban-status=12312  

Feel free to get started on it on your own and contribute a patch to upstream. I'm not working on fosspay as of yet. 

If you'd prefer to work on it together as a group feel free to join LibreMiami this month for a guix packaging meetup and make a request to package fosspay:

https://events.nixnet.services/events/27955ca1-0aee-4ec5-be20-48e6c45fd0f6

all the best,

jgart

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* Meta guix: making money with GNU Guix: slightly off topic
@ 2021-04-06 16:05 Joshua Branson
  2021-04-06 17:49 ` Leo Famulari
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Joshua Branson @ 2021-04-06 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Aloha you lovely people!  I personally believe that people should make
business out of free software.  Here are some of my business ideas
involving GNU Guix.  I invite you all to beat me to market!

- Become a competitor to jmp.chat.  jmp.chat is a free software cell
phone service.  I use it.  They charge $3 per month.  Unlimited
calling and texting.  Not to shabby.  Somewhere on their website, they
link to a wiki that has all of their source code and the nitty gritty
details on how to use their service.  Someone could make this a
service in GNU Guix and then ANYONE could compete with jmp.chat.

- Sell your emacs config.  Guix should make it possible for people to
   download and install a custom emacs.  I believe one of the guix
   developers is currently making a custom emacs for guix usage...can
   someone link to that for me?  You could make a custom channel, that
   somehow people can only access if they pay for you it.  This is
   free software, BUT people need to pay to use it.  "Conversations"
   (that's how I use jmp.chat) on my Android phone, has this business
   model.  You have to pay to download the software, but it is free
   software.

- Sell free software games.  I'm sure guix could help you do this is
   some way...

- If we package sourcehut, people could try to compete with Drew
  Devault.  Though that guy works 80 hours a week.  So best of luck
  competing against him!

Thanks!

Joshua

Apologies if this is off topic.  Please let me know if this sort of
email does not belong on guix devel!


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