vipul_prg_lessons

[gratipay-bot]

https://gratipay.com/vipul-prg-lessons/

(This application will remain open for at least a week.)

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks for the application, @VSChawathe! If I want to help you write tutorials, where do I get started? Where's your documentation for contributors?

[CVipulS]

Thank you sir, I think gratipay is brilliant. As Windows installer for PERL6 will be launching later this week, now seems good time to compose first tutorial.

While the participants' workflow is far less mature than silos like github & facebook being run by big companies from major IT hubs, I found Hubzilla worth attempting pursuit.. The best way to start participating for heading toward contributions will be by interacting on one of the posts. Depending on participants interest, I can share draft files selectively with the respective candidate through the Hubzilla channel for further work. That will be analogous with getting commit bit on private github repository, with my publishing the final post matching making repository public.

http://www.iprocess.firm.in/help/tags_and_mentions guides potential contributors. As remote indie, with family avoiding friction of resettling to some major IT hub, it's tough balancing getting relevant experience with avoiding going solo. This approach is about as much as I could figure out at best for now. I find inspiration from other teams of one on gratipay, and hope their insights regarding similar constraints will help shape clearer recommendations. My good friend http://www.intellect.ind.in/channel/intellect is already evaluating Hubzilla as well, so we may confront any difficulties at soonest possible.

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks for the explanation and kind words, @VSChawathe! :-)

share draft files selectively

Currently we require all Teams on Gratipay to provide open work, by which we mean that outsiders can start contributing to your work without prior permission from you. I think we'd want to see the draft process be public in order to be comfortable considering your work to be open work.

On gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#432, we are looking at relaxing our open work requirement for Gratipay Teams, so your options are two for getting your Team approved:

1. wait for Relax Open Work Requirement inside.gratipay.com#432 to play out
2. modify your workflow to be more open

Let us know how you'd like to proceed! :-)

[CVipulS]

You are welcome. Thanks for following up because keeping things moving is next to survival for me, as where my family is well settled, computing is more consumed than developed. If I were to open up my workflow furthermore, then also I'd require time to imagine how it can play out, deviating me from already slowly progressing stuff. So best way might be switching to gratipay when gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#432 resolves as my preferred solution provider. I'll use more misfitting interim alternative till then so I hope it resolves soon.

[chadwhitacre]

Sounds good, @VSChawathe. Let's touch base again when 432 is resolved!

[mattbk]

@VSChawathe, I'd like to approve this project under the new Terms of Service, but your homepage of http://www.iprocess.firm.in/channel/tutorials doesn't go anywhere. Can you add a new URL?

[CVipulS]

@mattbk HubZilla was overwhelming so I am redoing the full site. Unlike Paypal individual account, BrainTree (only noticeable option from new Terms of Service) seems to require teams to be well formed as companies with presence at one of https://www.braintreepayments.com/country-selection . To form an open company, I was thinking of initiating tutorial of handcrafting webpage templates, and following up with open sourcing the source code except branding assets, for improvisation by contributors. I am working at my own pace to align content fragments for the site for proper storytelling flow. On my side, I'll update the description on Gratipay early 2017, but I doubt if BrainTree will cover it's parent Paypal like individual (such as project owner) or anymore countries so soon.

[mattbk]

Let's step back a bit.

• If you can have a PayPal account in your country, you can receive money through Gratipay. Braintree is involved on the giving side--Braintree processes credit cards, the money flows through Gratipay, and is paid out to you via PayPal. You don't need to do anything directly with Braintree to use Gratipay.
• It's great if you want to build an open company, but this is no longer required under the new terms.

Does that clarify things?

[CVipulS]

Paypal says https://www.paypal.com/in/selfhelp/article/what-are-the-fees-to-receive-payment-from-a-different-country-faq1393 and they are right as even though I can't attain notably taxable income at short notice without moving to major IT hubs and fragmenting my family, but most people will use it to keep funds moving for fooling around with laws.
As for Paypal's business account, withdrawing will make sense only if Gratipay will add minimum balance clause as safety precaution for charges levied by banking system such as https://www.paypal.com/in/webapps/mpp/paypal-seller-fees and that's still assuming Paypal will never charge relatively substantial recurring subscription fee for such accounts.

[mattbk]

@whit537 thoughts?

[CVipulS]

@mattbk I've updated the paypal id & project info on GratiPay.

[mattbk]

Thanks @VSChawathe! Approved. Welcome to Gratipay!