funding / donation to data.table project

[jangorecki]

Inspired by #580 I would like to raise a suggestion to setup a funding / donation channel for data.table project.
Personally I couldn't afford donation anytime soon but I can image a serious companies which relies their data processing on data.table therefore they may in fact gain profits by funding and speeding up the bug fixes or improvements in the package.

[jangorecki]

As a simplest solution I can recommend setting up bitcoin address. You don't need any software, just setup account on blockchain.info/wallet, share your BTC address to be used to collect funds. Change collected bitcoins to fiat currencies on any exchange market you prefer or pay directly (dell, newegg, hosting services, etc.).
Safe and simple.

[mattdowle]

That's an idea. Will investigate, thanks. Crowdfunding for specific features maybe as well?

Another way to support us generally is to buy the course. One hope is that people/companies who use and know data.table already might buy the course anyway. As a way to support us. Then at least there's something tangible to receive for the money and they might pick up a few things they didn't know before. Whereas a "donation" is more difficult to put through company accounts.

https://www.datacamp.com/courses/data-analysis-the-data-table-way?referrer=GitHubWiki

[matthieugomez]

I also wish there was a simple way to donate (like ipyython http://ipython.org/donate.html).

[geneorama]

This course looks amazing! But who are these Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan people?

I tweeted the link and I changed the referrer link to "geneorama", hope you don't mind. I doubt my evangelism will be very effective in the near term, but you never know. I've been promoting R for a while and I think that's finally catching on!

Two questions, does the $95 include all 3 courses? Does it include any content updates?

[mattdowle]

Thanks. I retweeted. Much appreciated.

Two questions, does the $95 include all 3 courses?

Yes the 3 chapters: novice, yeoman and expert.

Does it include any content updates?

Yes - lifetime. Arun and I can update the exercises in response to feedback but the videos and animations are unlikely to change since those are costly to film and animate again. Unless any errors transpire which would would be fixed and included. New content would be a new course; e.g., an even more advanced course or domain specific (finance, bioinformatics).

@matthieugomez How much has IPython raised through donations, do you know?

[jangorecki]

IPython donation looks good but it seems to be limited to credit cards and paypal(?).

A good example of successful bitcoin donations is Free Software Foundation www.fsf.org which received on their BTC address 1PC9aZC4hNX2rmmrt7uHTfYAS3hRbph4UN amount of 924 BTC till now which at current rate is 356 026 USD (1.1M at the last bubble rate).

I hope data.table donation would not be limited only to credit cards or paypal.

[zachmayer]

I like the idea of crowd-funding for specific features. Like a kickstarter campaign, that when it hits $1,000 (or whatever the right number is) triggers development on fwrite. I'd donate $5 to that!

[jangorecki]

closing as there are no real action points for that issue.

[mattdowle]

@zachmayer In case you didn't see the update on #580, fwrite() is now available in dev.

[daroczig]

I just looked if it's possible to set up a recurring donation for data.table using GH's sponsors feature, but I was not able to find a way to do so. Any of the core devs willing to set up a profile at https://github.com/sponsors? 🙏