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yorik wrote:I created an account, pressed the "claim this project!" button, but nothing came... Not sure this site is very functional :?
You are right it gives a poor impression, but maybe its only due to a human error ;) .
I wrote them an e-mail .... lets see if anything changes. If not .... there's still Patreon.
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I just receive this
Hi yorikvanhavre,

You have been added as an admin of the FreeCAD team on Bountysource. You may invite additional members here: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/free ... ers/manage

Salt, our recurring crowdfunding platform, allows your team to collect contributions on a monthly basis. You can view and edit your Salt campaign from https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/freecad

If you have any questions you may reply to this email or join us in #Bountysource on irc.freenode.net.

Thanks,

The Bountysource Team
So I guess that means that page is ours now :)
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I couldn't send bitcoins, but $s went OK. Do you see any funds on the project side?
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Thanks Przemo!!!
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Another related thing: My patreon begins to grow well, so from this month I'll begin to save the biggest part, don't know what for yet, but so in a couple of months we can have a little money we can dedicate to some project. I'll write more about that later.
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Great!
Had overlooked the ongoing discussion here a bit.
yorik wrote:Thanks Przemo!!!
@Yorik could you please enter some topics in bountysource?
My favorite would be resolving the topological renaming problem. The money could maybe directly go into fc and not to a single developer.
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Edit ohh I remember ;) . The users should do this right?
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I just enabled an "Allow visitors to suggest issues" option...
I also tried to add our own tracker, but apparently bountysource only support github issues. So I guess that needs to be done manually.
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yorik wrote:I also tried to add our own tracker, but apparently bountysource only support github issues. So I guess that needs to be done manually.
Hello Yorik,
Do you know this alternative to Bountysource : FreedomSponsors ?
https://freedomsponsors.org/
Maybe you can get in touch with them, it's made in Brazil (São Paulo) !
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oh wow, neighbours!
Thanks, I didn't know it, will have a better look. Nowadays it's hard to keep track of all the crowdfunding sites!
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yorik wrote:I just receive this
Hi yorikvanhavre,

You have been added as an admin of the FreeCAD team on Bountysource. You may invite additional members here: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/free ... ers/manage

Salt, our recurring crowdfunding platform, allows your team to collect contributions on a monthly basis. You can view and edit your Salt campaign from https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/freecad

If you have any questions you may reply to this email or join us in #Bountysource on irc.freenode.net.

Thanks,

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So I guess that means that page is ours now :)
Yorik, could you place Patreon and bountysource on the site discussing donations.... https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Donate

The text has to be adopted/simplified because of these two new options.
At the moment, there is unfortunately no simple and straightforward answer.
could be deleted.
You could place Patreon and bountysource as last point under "Options".

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Good idea. Will do that today
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