Watercooler - June 2016

[Changaco]

This is Liberapay's monthly "what's up?" thread. Previous: #36.

[Changaco]

@MartinDelille asked in IRC if we had tried to get the Twitter account that exactly matches our name (@liberapay). The answer is yes, I contacted both the owner and Twitter (through their impersonation tool), neither responded.

[MartinDelille]

I tried again: https://twitter.com/martinodelilo/status/738359749113176064

[MartinDelille]

And also one of its followers: https://twitter.com/martinodelilo/status/738361557541916672
I sent a mail to the other, wait and see!

[Changaco]

Today Switzerland is holding a national referendum on basic income, which is an idea that influenced the way Liberapay works.

[Changaco]

As predicted by the polls the initiative for basic income was rejected. However, 23% voted in favor of it, which is not so bad, and the referendum generated worldwide press coverage for the idea of basic income, which is a big win for the movement. :-)

Tomorrow, back to working on funding our own basic incomes from donations via Liberapay!

[Changaco]

https://twitter.com/Changaco/status/739884275722522624

Someone just posted a link to @liberapaye on Hacker News for the first time :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11848605

[Changaco]

And in /r/opensource.

[Changaco]

Stripe is now out of beta in France, but they're still more expensive than MangoPay, and they probably still don't accept platforms like Liberapay.

[MartinDelille]

Ok. How many payement platform do we handle? Maybe it'll be cool to had some? Like Bitcoin?

[Changaco]

We rely entirely on MangoPay and we currently can't use any payment method that it doesn't support. The only other platform we've considered using is Uphold (liberapay/liberapay.com#44), but last I heard their paperwork was insane (gratipay/gratipay.com#3870 (comment)).

I personally have no interest in adding support for Bitcoin. I also think it would probably bring us more shady users than good ones. Moreover, I know that Gratipay can't use Bitcoin for legal reasons, so we'd need to research whether we could or not.

[Changaco]

Ask HN: Patreon for open source? | Hacker News (via gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#656 (comment))

[Changaco]

Top Patreon Creators: Best + Popular + Highest Paid + Successful (found it in the aforementioned Hackers News thread)

[MartinDelille]

I spoke about bitcoin because I'm participating to the Blockfest in Paris this week-end.

Regarding the top patreon creators link, shall I post it on facebook?

[Changaco]

Regarding the top patreon creators link, shall I post it on facebook?

No, if I thought we should share it I would have posted it in the news thread (#43).

[Changaco]

MangoPay has released a new version of their documentation.

[Changaco]

https://twitter.com/opencollect/status/742843048514736128

We now have 32 awesome open source projects on Open Collective totaling 1198 contributors, 120k+ stars. Support them https://opencollective.com/opensource

[Changaco]

A handy guide to making $$ in open source

[Changaco]

The next generation of OpenShift Online is here (Not really, it's a developer preview with temporary accounts.)

[Changaco]

Shit has hit the fan. MangoPay has a problem with controversial people using its service.

[Changaco]

MangoPay has just destroyed Liberapay's neutrality.