When will there be a Kbin Foundation that:
- collects and handles money to help build Kbin (right now I don’t see a single “donate” button)
- owns any property of Kbin (like domain and git), so that the board of the foundation can decide what’s done with it if ernest kicks the bucket or goes insane
- has a board that can make decisions about Kbin to spread power from one person to many?
@ernest
I don’t even know how pinging works :)
I’ll gladly become a donor when I see that Kbin will not be a one-guy-show for long, but a serious project that will outlive it’s creator. If ernest is not actively planning to have this project live even without himself, then I bet it’s not going to last.
Please comment any thoughts you have, and have a nice summer!
Usually it takes a pretty big project to warrant a foundation, think like FreeBSD or Apache. Kbin is still pretty small. They’ve grown a lot recently like Lemmy, but not near as big. They don’t have big development expenses since the project host is free and the developers are all volunteers. I think the devs are running kbin.social as well so that’s probably where more of the expense is incurred. Still I’m sure donations are a help even though the project is not particularly expensive.
Having a foundation/non-profit is easy and virtually free of fees. Small-time hobbyist sports clubs of like 10 people often have a nonprofit to manage the (small) finances of the group where I live. Kbin has potential to be a very big player in the post-reddit times, with millions of users. I don’t know what ernest does for living but it wouldn’t take much money to pay him full-time for Kbin development, but that would be the kind of expenses I was thinking (and later small-time marketing)