Recognize companies

[timothyfcook]

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✈️ This is the flight deck for the Recognize companies project. ✈️

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The top givers (often times companies) who are giving to Git... Gratipay should be shown on the main page.

This is an easy way to thank top givers for supporting projects and a good way to associate our brand with theirs.

Showing Heroku, Khan Academy, Bountysource, etc. on the front pages shows new users who is behind Gratipay and gives them a free advertisement saying "Hey, these folks are cool, they support open source, etc."

This list should change on each load and be drawn randomly from a mix of:

• the top 25 givers
• specifically curated givers with a unique story

Obviously, open to discussion. Just getting the ball rolling.

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✈️ This is the flight deck for the Recognize companies project. ✈️

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[timothyfcook]

This is related to #1513

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @jdorfman in private email.

[chadwhitacre]

How about this? I'm thinking we weight the impressions by amount giving.

=> select username, giving from participants where not anonymous_giving and 
-> giving > 0 and not is_suspicious and number='plural' order by giving desc;
┌──────────────────────┬────────┐
│       username       │ giving │
├──────────────────────┼────────┤
│ MaxCDN               │ 637.50 │
│ stripe               │ 625.00 │
│ balanced             │ 320.00 │
│ 7MacawMedia          │  70.00 │
│ khanacademy          │  66.00 │
│ saxifrageschool      │  51.75 │
│ cos.io               │  40.00 │
│ certifiedtorock      │  38.00 │
│ getsentry            │  35.00 │
│ openconcept_ca       │  29.25 │
│ Runscope             │  28.00 │
│ domainr              │  21.00 │
│ pusher               │  18.00 │
│ Gratipay             │  17.00 │
│ modernmsg            │  15.00 │
│ ukd1                 │  13.29 │
│ marioivan            │  12.00 │
│ sirenwendy           │  10.00 │
│ TriggitEng           │  10.00 │
│ crate                │   9.60 │
│ BenDiscoe            │   7.00 │
│ neocities            │   7.00 │
│ nestoria             │   7.00 │
│ ElijahLynn           │   6.20 │
│ MC COAL LLC          │   5.50 │
│ RokkinCat            │   5.00 │
│ FreeScholar          │   5.00 │
│ missionpinball       │   3.00 │
│ realtimeprojects     │   2.00 │
│ JustinMaxwell        │   2.00 │
│ fewerhassles         │   2.00 │
│ slidecaptain         │   2.00 │
│ PieterMarres         │   2.00 │
│ Aquaponics Lab       │   1.00 │
│ TrustedSugar         │   1.00 │
│ happyseaurchin       │   0.50 │
│ PublishBiyuti        │   0.50 │
│ Citizens Cooperative │   0.50 │
│ boris.ljevar         │   0.35 │
│ davidryal            │   0.25 │
│ roscminni            │   0.25 │
│ davidpinto0          │   0.25 │
│ FinancialBest        │   0.04 │
└──────────────────────┴────────┘
(43 rows)

[chadwhitacre]

"Select random row from a PostgreSQL table with weighted row probabilities"
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13040246/select-random-row-from-a-postgresql-table-with-weighted-row-probabilities

[chadwhitacre]

To avoid gaming, I'd rather base the weighting on how much each actually gave last week (giving is an estimate for next payday), but that can come later, I suppose.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @JeffSpies in personal conversation.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @nayafia at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXPDtPhnhus#t=55m34s (under gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#471).

[mattbk]

We'll need something like this soon, we now have 184 teams listed on the front page at http://gratipay.com!

[chadwhitacre]

Relevant: Building Web Reputation Systems (h/t)

[chadwhitacre]

Circling back around to this from gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#844 and gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#836 ...

[chadwhitacre]

Basically applying for Y Combinator has really kicked me into gear on our roadmap, jumping ahead to 2.iii.

[chadwhitacre]

Like, if we do get out there for an interview or whatever, I want to show a website that has at least one company giving to open source on the homepage.

[chadwhitacre]

PR started in #4135.

[chadwhitacre]

#4135 took a wrong turn at Albuquerque, which landed us at gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#987, and back here via gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#987 (comment). 😄

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from a representative of a top-25 Internet company:

We seek to celebrate the donors in a branded way (either we grant money to our employees who select projects, or we solicit ideas from them and grant for them, something like that). So we'd want to co-brand and say something that acknowledges both [] and [] for his sponsorship of this very important Node.JS module.

[chadwhitacre]

I've commandeered this ticket to be the flight deck for the Recognize companies project. Description duly updated.

[mattbk]

!m @whit537

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from Google:

We do ask that the recipients mention Google’s support on their blog or contribute a guest post to the Google Open Source Blog. Projects we support financially may also use Google’s logo on their donors page, provided they follow the Google Logo guidelines.

https://opensource.google.com/docs/growing/funding/

[techtonik]

@whit537 how to apply for Google funding? bugs.python.org/Roundup needs a lot of work.

[techtonik]

For companies I would also provide a rating of how many of its employees are supporting open source by giving them API to donate through their company, but with their name.