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Sponsor Allegro on GitHub? |
Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Whomever is the maintainer of the GitHub repo for Allegro, could you submit the project to be sponsored? Visit https://github.com/sponsors, and click "Join the Waitlst" to submit. GitHub will match donations. I was recently using https://github.com/nlohmann/json on TINS and was like "This is so useful, I wonder if there's a way to donate." At the top of the repo is a Sponsor button and I was like π€π€π€. {"name":"612448","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/f\/9\/f9c32786fdd6421fe1929bded9283682.jpg","w":1278,"h":385,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/f\/9\/f9c32786fdd6421fe1929bded9283682"} -- |
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Talk to elias and SiegeLord on IRC. I think one of them could probably help you. I will gladly donate $100 of my $2000 stimulus check. Assuming it passes the senate. :: My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
SiegeLord
Member #7,827
October 2006
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We don't need money, we need people . And the numbers here aren't enough to pay for people. "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow."-Ecclesiastes 1:18 |
knightedmagi
Member #17,688
May 2020
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I'll second what OP said. I would gladly donate, especially if the donation was matched. |
Elias
Member #358
May 2000
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Yeah, what SiegeLord said. In a distant past we had donations enabled on sourceforge but there wasn't really much we could have done with the occasional $50. -- |
amarillion
Member #940
January 2001
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It isn't always about money... https://blog.codinghorror.com/is-money-useless-to-open-source-projects/ That blog post suggests funding bounties. That might be an interesting option. But first we'd need to agree on what the bounties are. -- |
RmBeer2
Member #16,660
April 2017
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sponsor on github, what a useless thing. All its source codes are shared free of charge by its non-profit developers. And if you really wanted to profit you would not use github, you would go by closed code and you would apply a direct Paypal button on your personalized website. It only serves to attract idiotic or curious people. πππ π BlackRook WebSite (Only valid from my installer) π C/C++ π GNU/Linux π IceCream/Cornet π πππ Rm Beer for Emperor 2021! Rm Beer for Ruinous Slave Drained 2022! Rm Beer for Traveler From The Future Warning Not To Enter In 2023! Rm Beer are building a travel machine for Go Back from 2023! Rm Beer in an apocalyptic world burning hordes of Zombies in 2024! |
LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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RmBeer2 said: And if you really wanted to profit you would not use github, you would go by closed code and you would apply a direct Paypal button on your personalized website It's not about profit. It's a way of generating revenue to be able to pay people to work on the project fulltime rather than only in their spare time.
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RmBeer2
Member #16,660
April 2017
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@LennyLen , It is the same, generating income is profit. You need to be paid to be able to pay the programmers. πππ π BlackRook WebSite (Only valid from my installer) π C/C++ π GNU/Linux π IceCream/Cornet π πππ Rm Beer for Emperor 2021! Rm Beer for Ruinous Slave Drained 2022! Rm Beer for Traveler From The Future Warning Not To Enter In 2023! Rm Beer are building a travel machine for Go Back from 2023! Rm Beer in an apocalyptic world burning hordes of Zombies in 2024! |
dthompson
Member #5,749
April 2005
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On the topic of bounties in game libs, there was an interesting discussion on this Godot issue where the lead devs actually refused it. Annoyingly in this case, that issue is still open and still a massive problem. ______________________________________________________ |
LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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RmBeer2 said: generating income is profit. Sorry, but that's just blatantly wrong. It's only profit if the income is greater than the expenses. If you spend all of the income on paying people, then the profit is zero.
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Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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I do agree that having people power is more desirable than money power when it comes to OSS projects. Let me offer a different perspective, however. After TINS, amarillion and I chatted a bit about ways to incentivize more interest in the compo. This year's compo was really good, there was a lot of engagement, a lot of participation, a bunch of submissions. (#allegro IRC was very active, there were tons of logs, etc) There's a lot of other things we could do to bring in more people, including consolidating social outreach. All of this is work, true, but some of it comes down to raw capital. I think competitions like this and Speedhack are a good way to let Allegro "live" longer, and increase interest, participation, and awareness. During our discussion, the topic of offering prizes came up. Like, take for example that we right now have a pledge for $100 from Edgar. Matched with GitHub that would be $200. I'm happy to pledge $100 too, and that would bring the a total to $400. What could we do with $400? Run the next Speedhack, partially sponsored by Allegro, and offer prizes. Any combination of:
I think we would get a lot more people aware of and using Allegro with things like this. I also recall a good portion of the last pile of Allegro funds went toward developing mobile ports (buying devices for testing) which I think was a great allocation of the money. The important message is, I wouldn't cut short the possibility of leveraging capital as a way to bring good people in. . And, I think starting by opening channels like GitHub sponsors is the right place to start. -- |
Elias
Member #358
May 2000
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I actually like the idea of physical prizes like stickers (I love my allegro stickers ). And I think in one of the early *hacks I won a CD with Monster-1 on it (probably Trent G. was running it) - and finding it in the mail made me really happy Not sure we should use the Allegro github for it though. We'd be too late to get any matching funds [1] so really the only advantage over just sending to you or amarillion directly would be the button on the github site. For what it's worth if anything comes out of this I can also pledge $100 out of the $1200 I got from Trump (I was going to donate it all to ODNR (local nature preserves) but fine with splitting it a bit). -- |
Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Elias said: We'd be too late to get any matching funds Ah dang! That's too bad. Wouldn't it be funny though:
Regarding the actual topic (luls), I do think that opening up as many channels as possible is really the right approach. At my company, we advise most if not all business to start being available on as many channels as possible to find their audiences and sell products. Online store, in-store, Twitter, YouTube, Patreon, Instagram, Facebook, and so forth. It's more about reaching the customer where they are, enabling the payment gateways that are most familiar for them, etc. So I would advise to experiment and give the GitHub sponsorship program a try. It might work, it might not. That's kinda the nature of the game, though. Reading back in that sticker thread, there seemed to be some interest in an Allegro store (stickers, mugs, t-shirts). I would expect that it would be incredibly low volume. It would be more a labor of love, really. That might be something to explore, it could all go in the same pile. A big Allegro bucket of cash haha -- |
knightedmagi
Member #17,688
May 2020
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I would love to see Allegro to rise in popularity to SDL / SFML levels. I really don't get why it's not more popular. For what it's worth I would also be willing to pledge $100. |
RmBeer2
Member #16,660
April 2017
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@LennyLen Even if you follow your way of thinking, it is unfair that you treat programmers or even yourself as an expense, and it is even more unfair to think that if you do not pay other programmers then it is not considered an expense because you keep them. Those kinds of twisted self-sacrificing thoughts are worthless, don't exist, and come from the general and viral thinking of internet society as a crazy definition of kindness, or are even treated on the opposite side as something evil or perverse that should be avoided. @Mark Oates πππ π BlackRook WebSite (Only valid from my installer) π C/C++ π GNU/Linux π IceCream/Cornet π πππ Rm Beer for Emperor 2021! Rm Beer for Ruinous Slave Drained 2022! Rm Beer for Traveler From The Future Warning Not To Enter In 2023! Rm Beer are building a travel machine for Go Back from 2023! Rm Beer in an apocalyptic world burning hordes of Zombies in 2024! |
knightedmagi
Member #17,688
May 2020
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@Mark Oates Maybe DirectX will add Allegro as a dependency |
Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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RmBeer2 said: Despite being 14 participants this year, it is still not enough to spend on prizes. You're thinking in reverse, here. We offer the prize up front during the announcements of the upcoming competition, which will increase the number of people who participate. For perspective, I think 20 people entering with 14 people actually submitting, just because they love it and for no prizes whatsoever, is strong evidence that it can work. Quote: Also in TINS, the use of Allegro is optional. If more people come from outside, they will be people who do not use Allegro, they will end up making games in Java, Rust, Go, or any other ... I think most people this year actually submitted with an Allegro powered game, to be honest. Some food for thought. knightedmagi said: Maybe DirectX will add Allegro as a dependency Loooool -- |
LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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RmBeer2 said: As long as you make some money, it's still profit, no matter how many expenses are involved. Again, that's not how profit works. Profit is defined as revenue less expenses. So if I have a business that makes $1000 a week, and costs $500 a week to run, the profit is $500 per week, not $1000. Here is a whole article on profit. Quote: Even if you follow your way of thinking, it is unfair that you treat programmers or even yourself as an expense, and it is even more unfair to think that if you do not pay other programmers then it is not considered an expense because you keep them. Those kinds of twisted self-sacrificing thoughts are worthless, don't exist, and come from the general and viral thinking of internet society as a crazy definition of kindness, or are even treated on the opposite side as something evil or perverse that should be avoided. And where did I say any of that?
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Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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Quote: we need people . as devs, or library users? -----sig: |
amarillion
Member #940
January 2001
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Chris Katko said: as devs, or library users? Yes! I see some potential for Allegro sponsoring:
These are about building out the community. I was thinking some more about bounties, but I don't think lack of features is what is holding Allegro back. To make Allegro more popular, it's more worthwhile to invest in the community. -- |
MikiZX
Member #17,092
June 2019
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I'd be happy to support Allegro either montly or per bounty. not sure if this is helping in any way: a random thought: I have never tried using Allegro with SDL port for system calls - though, if this is implemented completely then having a HTML5 showcase page should be feasible - and having an online showcase might bring more people in. Possibly all of the TINS could be made available online in that case? EDIT: If it is possible to compile to HTML5, I could do that. Just will likely need some help getting my environment setup. |
Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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I help out where I can, but simply with my health issues I can't full-time anything. I might be making a simpler Steam game slated toward September. But my life is always one big question mark. -----sig: |
pmprog
Member #11,579
January 2010
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I'd love to help more on the library... though Siegelord practically did most of the work to implement MP3 support in the end, after I fumbled up the inital code to use them as Samples.
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SiegeLord
Member #7,827
October 2006
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I wouldn't want to give off an impression that we've gotta pay people to use Allegro, hah. I guess a prize-pool sort of thing might make sense though. I've never seen bug bounties work, but perhaps that's an okay idea too. "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow."-Ecclesiastes 1:18 |
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