Bring back pledging

[chadwhitacre]

Once we have #4148 → #4305, let's bring back pledging (killed in #3403). Reticketed from gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#893.

In this context, "pledging" means being able to set up a weekly payment to a potential project that we won't start collecting on until the potential project opts in to become an actual project and receive funds.

[kaguillera]

Didn't we discuss this before you left for SF @whit537? Let people pledge to projects that they would like to see on Gratipay and use that as incentive to woo those projects to register on Gratipay. Is this illegal @mattbk even if it is just pledges and not actual money?

[chadwhitacre]

What haven't we talked about, @kaguillera? ;-)

I don't see a legal issue with pledging.

[chadwhitacre]

Closing this issue since the idea is captured on gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#987. We'll make a PR when we get to it.

[mattbk]

Is this illegal @mattbk even if it is just pledges and not actual money?

Oh gosh, please don't ask me for legal advice. 😨 😉

[chadwhitacre]

Reopening because we're getting ready to get to it, but I'm not ready to make a PR yet. ☺️

[chadwhitacre]

Did some noodling on this today with @kaguillera. Write-up forthcoming.

[mattbk]

Is GratipayAlerts on Twitter coming back?

[chadwhitacre]

Well, we have an email address for package maintainers, which seems a better contact method than Twitter, ya?

[mattbk]

Well, we have an email address for package maintainers, which seems a better contact method than Twitter, ya?

Agree, unless you want Twitter to be used for advertising.

[chadwhitacre]

Hopefuly we'll have better things to advertise once companies start paying for their package.json. "Thanks to Acme Corp for paying $1,000 for their package.json!"

[JessaWitzel]

I would like writeup of said noodling if it can be remembered :)

[chadwhitacre]

I'm actually gonna go ahead and close this out. The new strategy is to crowdfund for all of open source at once vs. individually picking and choosing projects to give to.