Fwd: You've been approved for GitHub Sponsors

[Dima Pasechnik]

Please share widely - one can now sponsor SageMath via GitHub "Sponsor" button on https://github.com/sagemath

(see also https://github.com/sponsors/sagemath for details - and let me know whether it should be improved/changed)

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[Nils Bruin]

Thank you for setting this up!  It looks like a very generous move from GIthub to run the donation collection infrastructure and still give 100% to the sponsored party. I think people might be more inclined to donate if it were clearer where the money went. Is it the intention that this money goes to the Sage Foundation (at least that's a registered charity somewhere, so it has some fiscal oversight)?

[kcrisman]

That is very interesting news!   Nice work.

"We plan to use sponsorship income to cover infrastructure costs, and to hire software engineers for specific tasks." -> that is good.  Any other details?  I think that the "old" Sage Foundation at UW may be in mothballs at this point, or so I seem to recall things going down.  Would it (say) directly sponsor CI infrastructure via Github itself?

[Dima Pasechnik]

technically, money goes to a registered charity Open Collective, which takes a 10% cut for admin etc costs (and Stripe takes a cut, too) and gives the rest to us. At least the setup is very easy - noone had time so far to get Sage into NumFocus sponsoring programme, something that takes much  more admin. 

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[Nils Bruin]

On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 10:36:20 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:

technically, money goes to a registered charity Open Collective, which takes a 10% cut for admin etc costs (and Stripe takes a cut, too) and gives the rest to us. At least the setup is very easy - noone had time so far to get Sage into NumFocus sponsoring programme, something that takes much  more admin.

OK, great. I think it would help if you link to a place where this is disclosed and where you specify the "us", and what "us" pledges to use the money towards, and if there are further overheads creamed off.

[Dima Pasechnik]

Would you like to volunteer?
I'd add you to the github accounts authorised to change this stuff :-)

There is one more thing I didn't do - enable the sponsor button on all
sagemath’s repositories by creating and enabling a .github/FUNDING.yml
file. People who feel at home with yml are most welcome to take over
here.

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