Ehi @stephdl sorry for my late response but I took my time to clear my head.
Given that:
- Nethesis doesn’t wish to receive nor accept donations
- Every donation should be redirected to the NethServer project
- We have to ensure maximum transparency in money transactions
- Creating a foundation to receive and manage money is not an easy thing to do and likely it doesn’t worth at the moment.
There are two practical ways we can go at the same time:
- Reward developers funding features to implement
- Set up a simple donation system
Reward developers
www.bountysource.com could be a good proposal: straightforward, transparent, integrated with the issue tracker
How does Bountysource work? Users fund bounties on open issues or feature requests they want to see addressed.
Developers create solutions which close the issue and claim the bounty on Bountysource. Backers can accept or reject the claim If accepted, Bountysource pays the bounty to the developer. Easy, doesn’t it?
In this case, community members or companies interested might act as bakers.
Check the project FAQs and some examples:
Donations
We should set up a simple donation system through which people can support the project.
That’s a simple proposal, but we can find other ways:
Then, we can redistribute such pool of money equally and/or by technical requirements: services, hardware, software, mirrors, merchandising, community initiatives. Or even simply supporting issues on bountysource itself.
We have to decide who can manage this pool, for instance, a group of chosen and trusted people.
What do you think? @Ctek @islipfd19 @robb @sitz @Ctek @Nas @dz00te