Adam Kalsey

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Donations and open source teams

23 Jun 2003

Many open source projects accept donations as a way of funding their development efforts and I’m wondering how these donations are typically distributed among team members. Currently the donations for Zempt have covered paying the bills (like hosting and domain registration) and have been split between Bill and myself. But as the project grows and we add other team members I realize that I have no idea what I should do with the donations.

I’m hoping you can help, so I’m throwing some ideas out and asking for your comments and suggestions.

When you make a donation to a team of open source developers, how do you expect the money will be used? Are you aware of any schemes for distributing the funds? OSCommerce allows you to donate directly to a specific team member instead of donating to the project itself. What do other groups do?

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