Could someone please take over this group?

I think Abdullah's FOSS Factory is a great idea. I met him at DrupalCon Szeged. We chatted together and with Kieran Lal. I'm not sure what came of those discussions...

However, doing this "outside of d.o." with the desire/intention that it was really inside d.o. is the wrong way (for me) to go about it in my opinion (and with my resources). It would be a lot of hard work and sucking up to a lot of people. If I was to put my time and energy into this I'd want to know that people were behind the idea and that people wanted to use it.

Bear in mind that FOSS Factory works now regardless of being inside or outside of d.o. But it would work much better inside of d.o. I feel that FOSS Factory is too complex for what is needed.

This thing needs to be real easy. It needs to be integrated within d.o. from the start. So, I'm starting to think of how we could do this on a very simple level. Just using text in the comments? Like "I pledge 10 USD for this update". Could a robot/crawler find these and then post the total results as a comment? At least this way it all happens on d.o. and people start to get used to the idea. I guess the view on robots posting is pretty negative though.

It is interesting to think of ways to do this within d.o. in a way that doesn't require the admins to approve of it. And hopefully it's pretty non-intrusive and informative at the same time.

Cheers Daniel

I'll take it over.

I would be happy to officially or unofficially help with this group.

Should be known up front that I very much agree with Gus Austin and Daniel Harris on the need to make donating as natural and easy as possible (including the coordinating by users to take a proposal to developers). (Also on record at the same thread Daniel posted his ideas to.) I think this group is also the place to discuss tactics and tools to help projects get funded, as well as listing the projects themselves.

I do think (now) that we can and even should use tools outside the drupal.org family of web sites: the Drupal Association reasonably does not want to be involved in the minutia of gathering and holding money for project work and it does not yet have a 501c3 or affiliated organization to take tax-deductible donations in the U.S. Since I happen to have one I'm offering it's use for projects that meet its stated purpose of promoting democratic communication or communication in democracy, and in particular right now am trying to drum up support for funding the Decisionmaking API module, partly as a demonstration that major people-funding of Drupal work is possible. Looking for co-conspirators.

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}