[Twisted-Python] Partnership possibility with Twisted

[Alex Georgie]

Thanks Glyph! Shooting them an email now.

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Alex Georgie <alex at seedanddew.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm Alex from SeedAndDew. I was chatting with Moshe about SeedAndDew and
> whether Twisted would like to participate and he mentioned bringing it to
> the mailing list to get your opinions.
>
> SeedAndDew is a common subscription platform that allows users to
> contribute to a number of open source projects with a single subscription.
> The idea here is that it's a lot easier to get people to contribute
> $10/month to every open source project they work with than it is to get
> them to contribute $5/month for a specific project. The subscription
> revenue will be distributed based on the amount of time users spend reading
> documentation of the respective project which I anticipate will correspond
> well with actual use. So if a user spends 10% of their time reading the
> Twisted documentation, you get 10% of the subscription revenue.
>
> Our goal is to increase the pool of people who contribute to open source
> by removing the friction of having to manage subscriptions paid to specific
> projects and changing it as your stack and interests change. This would be
> a passive income source that doesn't require any further work outside of
> the initial integration.
>
> So far we have 10 projects including SQL Alchemy, RSpec, Bundler, Browsh
> and Parse. Does this seem like something you would be interested in?
>
>
> We'd definitely be interested in this, but you probably want to contact
> the Software Freedom Conservancy - https://sfconservancy.org/
> about/contact/ - to work out the details of how this might work
> financially.
>
> Thanks for reaching out!
>
> -glyph
>
>
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