Gregory Gerrein:
> Hi Sajolida,
> Thanks for your quick response. Our idea was to create a platform that
> would facilitate donations to open source projects like Tails. The
> original idea is we would design a t-shirt (with your approval and design
> feedback), and on the back of the shirt would have bitcoin QR donation
> codes to your project. It would also additionally have a QR url to a
> donation portal we would set up that would allow for other types of
> donations (credit card, pay pal). We will be writing an iOS and Android
> app that can be used in conjunction with this (all of the code to our apps
> and backend platforms will be open sourced). So to answer your questions:
>
> - We would sell and ship the t-shirts online.
> - Our original idea was that we would earn money on the t-shirt sales, and
> you would earn money via the donations. We can distribute revenue
> differently if you think this is not equitable.
>
> In short, this is a new venture, and we are not tied to any ideas too
> tightly. We have reached out to only a few platforms so far, and have
> gotten buy-in from Counterparty (http://counterparty.io) so far. I
> personally feel that Tails and Counterparty are two of the most important
> projects going on to date. In the end, we just want to raise money for
> projects like Tails, while also selling some t-shirts on our end.
> Whichever revenue agreement we come to, I would like it to be transparent
> to all communities involved, so no one feels like something inappropriate
> or unfair is happening.
>
> Please, feel free to propose anything different than what I have
> presented. I'd be more than happy to work on a solution that you feel
> works out best for your project and community.
Cool, I understand better your proposal. I added that info to our ticket
about t-shirts:
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7052.
But keep in mind that we had other more abstract and political issues
about making and selling t-shirts in the first place. So don't expect
any quick answer from us. Even if your proposal changes our initial idea
quite a bit in the sense that we wouldn't have to deal ourselves with
the selling and shipping of those t-shirts which looks interesting to me
at least.
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sajolida
