Donation support

[thureos]

I started using FS not long ago but it is a must have in each of my new pc installs. I would like to thank the team with a small donation but I haven't found a way of doing it. If you don't need the money, please have my appreciation!

Thank you guys!

[mmahmoudian]

I'm glad that you have also found Flameshot useful. The topic of donations has been brought up few times already, but for the time being there are no major costs. For now, I will mark this as "discussion" just in case the devs who actually do the coding have any ideas.

In my humble opinion, the best donation would be your time. If you can, help with the code or if you, like me, don't know the C++, help us making the documentation better (there is a separate repository for the website) or help answering some of the questions in the issues (usually labelled with "question") or help us confirm and reproduce some bugs (labelled "unconfirmed bug"). Even spreading the word would about Flameshot and suggesting it to friends and colleagues would be amazing.

[thureos]

Thank you,

How about a bounty source account where you can put sponsors/coders to work together on a issue/feature?

[mmahmoudian]

I've never heard of this bountysource. Perhaps it can be discussed with the community. Use the following link to join our community Slack:

https://join.slack.com/t/flameshotworkspace/shared_invite/zt-kx50keyc-H2GHTjQmmC4X2oRgSeDIVg

[borgmanJeremy]

Im good with bounty source. That fits our model much better where we got lots of short contributions from many people.

Do we need to do anything to support that? I thought it was managed more from the feature request side.

[mmahmoudian]

Update: I finally managed to act upon this as it will help people to directly invest in the codebase transparently. I went to create the "team" there for Flameshot and I realized it already exists, so I applied to claim the management and maintenance of it. I will update here when the rights were transferred and I completely setup the Flameshot team there.

In the meanwhile, I updates some of the texts and links.

[ianwijma]

I personally don't have time to spare and would love to chuck a few bucks to this project because its my defacto screenshotting tool helping me on my personal machines, but also with work it empowers me to make screenshots without needing to pull out and editor to add arrows and overlay screenshots. To I don't mind supporting this project and its maintainers financially a bit once in a while.

[mmahmoudian]

Unfortunately the BountySource hasn't replied back in spite if multiple messages from us (I wish people cared more for their business). We are considering Rysolv but there are few questions that we should find answer to.

[holazt]

@mmahmoudian Is this a legacy? https://opencollective.com/flameshot

[mmahmoudian]

@ZetaoYang interesting! It never came up in my searches. It is definitely a legacy account and we should close it. As I have also mentioned on Slack, I have opened an account for Flameshot on Rysolv and we are testing it. The idea is to use donations to directly improve the software and to reduce some of load from the main devs.

https://rysolv.com/repos/detail/2ce10839-c350-47b1-89a4-2ee9cf0e0678

I also already put a bounty/reward on one of the issues.

If we agree to go with Rysolv, then we should make a public announcement.

[CyrusZei]

Add a github sponsor button. Love this app !! Thank you for this

[mmahmoudian]

@CyrusZei please consider using Rysolv:

https://rysolv.com/repos/detail/2ce10839-c350-47b1-89a4-2ee9cf0e0678

This way your donations directly turns into features and bug fixes in a transparent way.

[mmahmoudian]

Update

I contacted OpenCollective and after some discussions they said that they will close the Flameshot pledge in OpenCollective. Although at the time of writing this message it is already over 22 hours that they confirmed they will delete it and yet is not removed nor frozen. that account is now deleted. There were $52 pledged in that account, but because none of the pledges were collected, none of the donors were charged either (no transactions were ever made).

The general idea is to bring all the peripheral accounts under the same umbrella of administration so that we can keep track of things.

Our current stance regarding donation is now available on our website (https://flameshot.org/donate/) and it will get updated if/when the consensus collective decision was changed. Also, if/when that changed, there will be posts on Flameshot social media account to inform everyone accordingly.