There should be a way to donate money to support the project

[spyder-bot]

From stefano....@gmail.com on 2013-07-21T09:05:16Z

I would like to contribute back to Spyder. However, as a scientist (but not CS), I do not have the time nor (in all likelihood) the Python skills required to make a significant code contribution.

There should be a way to donate money to support development, similarly to other open-source efforts.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Enter in Google: "site:code.google.com/p/spyderlib/ donate"
   1. No results
   2. ???

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1492

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2013-08-09T12:42:59Z

You are right: we don't have a proper channel to let people support us. Right now we are discussing how we would like to handle this.

Thanks a lot for your offer. I'll be back to you once we have made a decision.

Status: Accepted
Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Other

[goanpeca]

@ccordoba12 I think this is very important and part of something that I was looking when making the website.

Should a Spyder Software Foundation be constituted? I guess that is how generally these things work, no? Any tip from the guys in IPython?

@SylvainCorlay, you are in US so maybe it would be worth checking opening an Foundation?

Cheers

[ccordoba12]

The right way to do this is through Numfocus. Last year I started conversations with them but I got busy and couldn't finish the process to be able to receive donations through them.

I'll restart that as soon as I can.

[kparal]

I'd like to see a PayPal button or a Flattr button.

[goanpeca]

After 3.1 and the website is up this should be No 1 priority @ccordoba12

[rlaverde]

We could consider using https://opencollective.com/ Some FOSS communities are using it.

[goanpeca]

I think @ccordoba12 was working on NumFocus paperwork.

[goanpeca]

See #5804

[goanpeca]

@kparal we are trying out https://opencollective.com/spyder/

Care to give it a try :-) ?

[kparal]

A bit late for me, I switched to Atom half a year back due to Spyder being broken on Fedora (and it still is, for me, see #5212). But it's great to finally see some option to donate, and I'll use it if I switch back to Spyder in the future. Thanks.