clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 08.11.2016 um 00:05 schrieb [GDS|Enropy]:
>
> > On a personal note, any bounty I pay will also have a donation to the Pov
> > Team/org as a whole if such a thing is possible. Do they have a Patreon
> > page or something? I want to make sure the whole org benefits.
>
> The POV-Ray dev team as a whole has a tradition of discouraging monetary
> donations, to protect against quarrels among all the contributors over a
> fair scheme for distributing such donations.
>
> (They did put up the occasional Amazon wishlist to get a new hard drive
> for the web server or a raytracing-related book for one of the team
> members, but that's an entirely different matter.)

Oh yeah, if I remember this, I bought a book for Chris Cason. Looking at
amazon.com I still see "POV-Ray Team Co-ordinator" in the Your Friends list.
Other than that I only see a couple buys for myself, Ray Tracing Creations (two
from 2001, 2006) and the Ray Tracing Worlds books (2006).

And there was that great key fob made possible by some people. I bought 3 so I
could give one away and put another away to be untouched over time. Other than
that I hadn't put any money toward POV-Ray... until now.

> The only crowdfunding platform the POV-Ray dev team is officially
> present on is an open source bounty platform where anyone can put up
> bounties for any issue tracked on any GitHub project, potentially
> without the project owners even knowing about this; so we officially
> claimed dibs on the POV-Ray project on their platform to assert at least
> a minimum degree of control over this mechanism. But currently we don't
> publicly advertise our presence there.

I will look at that, too, besides only GoFundMe for UberPOV.

Offering inclusion in the About POV-Ray pop-up by scrolling a list of donor
names seems like a nice way to keep things going... if this kind of thing is an
okay idea.

> As a member of the POV-Ray dev team, I stay in line with this policy.
>
> As the person behind UberPOV I tend to be less picky, and had actually
> set up means for people to funnel funds my way soon after the start of
> that project; but out of respect for my fellow contributors I'm not
> making much fuss in official POV-Ray channels about this fact (which is
> probably why nothing much has come out of it previously ;)).

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