Sponsoring using github Sponsors

[rferraton]

Hello

I would like to sponsor MiniExcel but the ECPay is quite obscur for me.
I would like to avoid PayPal also for ethical reason.

Why not using github sponsoring ?

Regards

[shps951023]

Really appreciate your kind support!
The reason I can't use GitHub Sponsorship right now is because my account's location is Taipei, which isn't supported yet.

[rferraton]

I was not aware of that !
Do you think it can comes available in a decent time ?

[shps951023]

Really appreciate, maybe 2 months later we will try to apply a Hong Kong account.
But it's ok for us now, really happy your support 🐱‍🏍🐱‍🏍

[rferraton]

ok ping me when you have it.

[michelebastione]

@shps951023 I've been looking into OpenCollective recently, do you think it could be a viable option for us to use as a fiscal host so that we don't have to concern ourselves with opening a bank account for the organization and figuring out how to handle the other tax related issues?

[rferraton]

i don't know them, they take 10% fees. Quite important even the service sound nice

[shps951023]

@michelebastione

OpenCollective recently, do you think it could be a viable option for us to use as a fiscal host

Yes! please follow your plan to try 🙌

And currently, donation communities for .NET are quite rare. (Special thanks to @rferraton , you are one of the precious few willing to give monetary support 🙌).

For other .NET Foundation projects, it’s often powered by passion development. Especially after the AI, fewer people coming to GitHub to see who the actual developers are.

After thinkging, it seems like spending a lot of time reslove banking issues might not be worthwhile.

I think, maybe our key developers could record technical tutorials on platforms like Udemy and then place a link in the README. This could generate some income. (maybe...) or provide personal github donations link

But, it's better than selling like clothes and dealing with logistics 😂

Note:
https://github.com/orgs/mini-software/discussions/754
Image is the 5 years income 🤦‍♂️ (hahaha...😥)

[shps951023]

I'm trying to develop a project to join apache foundation or CNCF, it could provide some budget for core dev 🙌
but it's future 🐱‍🏍