Donate Less – The Everyone Environment
blogs.gnome.org
We have a new donation page. But before you go there, I would like to impress upon you this idea: We would vastly prefer you donate $10/mo for one year ($120 total) than $200 in one lump sum. That’s counter-intuitive, so let me explain. First of all, cash flow matters just as much to a […]
  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
    6·
    12 hours ago

    GTFO. They are saying that regular donations are so much better that they prefer them even if they will receive less money. Isn’t that obvious? If you have $4k in the bank account today you can in theory hire a permanent dev but you don’t know if you will be able to pay him next month. If you have $3k per month in regular donations you know that you will be able to pay someone as long as people don’t cancel those. Which will take some time. Which gives you the stability needed to hire people.

    Phrasing this as “gnome has too much money” is malicious.

  • Novocirab@feddit.org
    48·
    1 day ago

    I think a better title would be “Gnome is Asking You to Switch from Lump Sum Donations to Regular Donations, Even If the Total Amount is Smaller”

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Do donations really come in all at 1 or 2 given dates per year?

    I would assume non-recurring donors average out over the months. Maybe there is a bit more in holiday season.

    But if I donate 200$ in May, are there no other people in the world that donate 200$ in June and then others still in July etc.?

    edit:

    I could not find any donation stats/charts for gnome. But assuming they are similar to KDE, it looks pretty managable to me. There seems to be a solid baseline of about 4k per month and then some months have huge extras. It does not seem very complicated to budget that.

    2025: https://kde.org/community/donations/previousdonations/

    2024 looks way more wild. But that is when they introduced the donation popup by the end of the year.

    2024:

    • enemenemu@lemm.ee
      4·
      15 hours ago

      It’s easier to sell the idea that you will get x million this year based on a monthly forecast compared to a yearly forecast.

      The question is why do I pay once and not monthly for many services? Because they don’t provide bank details and only let me donate via stripe or paypal. Donating 50ct via stripe per momth is just nuts. So, I have to donate 10 bucks once every two years so that We don’t pay too much to stripe (and even then stripe gets way too much)