Accrescent needs funding

Eirikr70

For those who believe that Accrescent is worth supporting, please read this post.

IcyScroll

May I suggest opencollective? I would love to support Accrescent but don't want to have a github account.
@lberrymage

lberrymage

IcyScroll We'll look into it. It's more work for us to support more donation methods, but we want people to be able to donate in a way they're comfortable with.

wizoatk

Similar conversation happening in previous thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24151-what-do-you-think-of-accrescent-app-store/26

Eirikr70

wizoatk Right, but I think that it deserves a dedicated thread.

Eirikr70

Is there a way that those of us who are maintaining a self-hosted system might help the project in any way (although considering that we are no professional sysadmin)?

lberrymage

Eirikr70 Unfortunately no, there's nothing I can think of at the moment.

boarim

lberrymage Between a recurring fiat currency-based donation and a recurring Monero one, what would the project prefer?

horde

lberrymage host mirrors of repo?

Xtreix

I increased my recurring Github sponsor donation to $5, more than that, I can't really afford it currently, but I refuse to see this project come to harm one day. It's the best hope for a very high-quality app store for me.

lberrymage

Xtreix Thank you for your support!

Xtreix

lberrymage You're welcome, thanks for your hard work! ;)

lberrymage

boarim Fiat via GitHub Sponsors is preferred because 100% of the donation goes to us. Crypto has to be converted to fiat at a slight fee so we can use it.

lberrymage

horde Accrescent's architecture isn't designed to support mirrors and we don't need them in practice anyway since our bandwidth costs are so low.

boarim

lberrymage Thank you for your reply. Hope you can support donations through more ethical platforms like Liberapay in the future 🙂

dhhdjbd

lberrymage
i too would like to see if possible other donation options.. like an IBAN i can do bank transfer to if this is possible,
i dont know how it works for you

(also i would assume with a paypal link people would also like use that but i dont know)

trashaccount

Donated. Maybe GrapheneOS should temporarily pin this thread.

Eirikr70

I invite those of is who have social accounts on themes related to privacy, security, Android alternatives, open source, etc. to publish a thread calling for fundings.

Molasses

Perhaps we could ask companies like Proton or Mullvad and other friendly organizations to become sponsors for accrescent.

It would be in their best interest after all, since a portion of their customers wants to obtain their apps in a secure manner outside from Google's Playstore or simply downloading APKs from their websites.

Especially Proton, since it does a annual fundraiser for open source projects.

Pocketstar

I think an option for bank transfer (Wise) would be benificial for the people that don't use cryptocurrency, that is how I do a yearly donation to GrapheneOS, it is very accessible.
Also unpaid volunteers would be great, there are lots of people without a job in countries where they still have wellfare and coding skills.
Sadly I don't have those skills myself, nor am I reliable enough. (Chronic depression)

de0u

Pocketstar I hope the clouds can lift for you, at least a little, at least on some days. Meanwhile, you are definitely contributing to GrapheneOS by promptly testing new releases. Thanks!