Re: Proposal to use donations for a "Priv oxy month"

No objections - you've clearly given this a great deal of thought.

----- Reply message -----
From: "Fabian Keil" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [privoxy-devel] Proposal to use donations for a "Privoxy month"
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 4:01 PM

Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote:

> As an experiment, I'd like to concentrate on working on Privoxy
> for about four weeks, spending a (relatively) significant amount
> of donations to pay some of my bills: 500 €, provided I come up
> with enough receipts SPI can accept.
> 
> For various reasons this wouldn't be a salary and formally
> there would be no deliverables and obviously no (pathetic)
> hourly rate.
> 
> The idea is to work on a couple of TODO list items and to put
> a "so far, donations were used for ..." section on the website.
> Hopefully this will have a noticeable affect on the amount of
> donations we get.
> 
> Depending on the results, the experiment could be repeated
> after a while, maybe even with a more competitive "wage".

While the results aren't in yet, I'd like to continue the
experiment thusly:

1) Clearly document in various places that donations are being used
to fund work on Privoxy and that donors are welcome to let us know
which TODO list items they are interested in the most.

2) Make donating from Europe more convenient.

I already asked Zwiebelfreunde e.V. about this and they are
willing and able to provide a (shared) bank account and
a (dedicated) Paypal address for us:
https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/ (German)
https://www.torservers.net/ (English, and technically just a
Zwiebelfreunde e.V. project).

In Germany Zwiebelfreunde e.V. is considered a "gemeinnütziger
Verein" which means donations are tax-deductible (at least in
Germany, maybe in other parts of the EU as well).

This would be an alternative to SPI, not a replacement.

3) Keep track of hours spent working on Privoxy and occasionally
send bills to SPI (and hopefully Zwiebelfreunde e.V.) with
a hourly rate of up to 100 €/h.

How many tracked hours are billed would depend on the amount
of money that is available. Which tracked hours are billed
would depend on the relevant German laws which don't treat
all work equally as far as taxes and mandatory insurances
are concerned.

4) Introduce a "Privoxy moral license" similar to the VML for
people who prefer getting a bill (from an individual Privoxy
developer, not from the team) instead of donating:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/index.html

Given that Privoxy is (AFAIK) less commonly used in the
(porn) industry than Varnish, the interest in bills will
probably be quite a bit low(er), but offering it shouldn't
hurt.

I'm currently waiting for feedback from the local tax office
which is relevant for #3 and #4, but I'm optimistic that the
details can be sorted out by the end of next month.

Any comments or objections?

Fabian

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse
Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition
Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows
Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards
http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft

_______________________________________________
Ijbswa-developers mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ijbswa-developers