brainstorm name-brand potential customers

[chadwhitacre]

Who should be accepting payments on Gratipay?

• Wikipedia
• Internet Archive—donation receipts are signed by Wendy Hanamura, Director of Partnerships
• Firefox

[mattbk]

https://github.com/fisharebest/webtrees is one I use. Is this issue about large targets?

[chadwhitacre]

@mattbk Yes, let's make this about large targets. Who would we be proud to have on Gratipay? A reference customer that we can use in conversation with others ... "Well, [Wikipedia] is a customer ..."

[mattbk]

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew

[chadwhitacre]

@mattbk They used to be active: https://gratipay.com/~Homebrew/. Want to reach out in a ticket in their repo? :-)

[mattbk]

#446 (comment)

Would [GitLab] be interested in using Gratipay?

[chadwhitacre]

I mean, while we're dreaming: Panera ran a pay-what-you-want experiment for a few years. Bon Jovi's is still going.

[mattbk]

See also gratipay/gratipay.com#1149.

[chadwhitacre]

Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2016/09/20/what-it-costs-to-run-lets-encrypt.html

[chadwhitacre]

What about a bundle? "Give to the Open Internet ... we'll distribute amongst these fine organizations."

[mattbk]

What about a bundle?

User-curated bundles would be neat someday...

[chadwhitacre]

We had a similar idea back in the day: gratipay/gratipay.com#449. I like "bundles" better.

[mattbk]

It's also similar to proportional giving.

[chadwhitacre]

donation receipts are signed by Wendy Hanamura, Director of Partnerships

Tweeted (though she hasn't for four months) and called (there was a number on the receipt as well)—talked to Chris the office manager. I am registered for lunch next Friday as part of #867, should be able to meet Wendy then ("the whole staff is there, our founder gives an update"). 👍

[chadwhitacre]

Gonna pick up with that conversation in Pipedrive (#851, #855).

[chadwhitacre]

I've pitched Mozilla at mozilla/donate.mozilla.org#1637. 😳

[chadwhitacre]

I've got Pipedrive deals going for Wikimedia, Mozilla, Internet Archive, and Homebrew (cf.). Closing!