devanooga could raise funds through patreon

[samlachance]

I don't have an implementation plan but as I was trolling the website and noticed the "donate" button I thought to myself "people who donate may be interested in donating regularly and automatically"

Typically people who have patreons offer something in turn which devanooga probably could not since it does not generate any consumables.

[brb3]

Our current donation system allows for scheduling recurring donations. We could try promoting that more.

I like the idea of using Patreon, but idk what we could give people for being a pateron subscriber. Definitely open to hearing suggestions.

[DigTK]

Keep in mind that Patreon takes 5% of successfully-processed payments

[StrangeWill]

Typically people who have patreons offer something in turn which devanooga probably could not since it does not generate any consumables.

Hmm we've talked about providing "swag", t-shirts, chatech memberships, etc. these could possibly be things we do. Not sure if that all is OK in their ToS, I'd have to look into it.

It would bring in the funds to be able to provide such resources.

The only trick is we'd need to have reoccurring rewards...

[StrangeWill]

Also, I had pondered this briefly before but had no clue if it would be worth the effort (eg: not worth doing this if we get 0 supporters through Patreon).

Monthly swag could be kind of annoying to manage, every other month though we could do packages? I dunno...

If we got interest, I support the idea and may be able to handle some of the logistics of it...

[DigTK]

I think we're better off with a donation system that's not Patreon. We don't really have a use for all the features Patreon offers, we don't really fit in their business model.

Our current system already supports monthly donations, I don't see a reason to switch to anything else right now, unless I'm missing a use-case our current system doesn't support.

[StrangeWill]

Patreon allows us to promote more than just a donation, but the exchange of goods for a monthly subscription.

The validity is entirely dependent on the amount of people willing to pay for such a thing, it may be worth running through #general

[samlachance]

I would probably give devanooga a buck or two if it was through patreon simply because I already have an account and the effort to sign up to support a cause is pretty low. I would probably not sign up through the current system because I would have to sign up to a new site. Additionally, it mean that I could not easily cancel because it's on a different site

[samlachance]

As an aside, giving something away monthly is not a requirement for patreon -- just a common convention

[StrangeWill]

I need to ping #devanooga-chat about this and see if anyone else is interested, while a pain to do for like $2 from @samlachance if we got any other interest in doing this throwing up a Patreon wouldn't be hard.