Hi everyone!
I’ve been discussing with @sascha.foerster that there are a few free software projects that would perfectly fit the goals of our open calls via nlnet.nl/taler and would be perfectly suited for a GNU Taler integration, but either we aren’t aware of them yet or the community around these projects is not aware of our project OR does not have the developer capacity to engage in writing a proposal and doing the integration with their core team.
Thus I would like to discuss the idea with y’all to have this integration backlog here, where we can collect projects that fit the mentioned categories above and hopefully we can match developers with projects, projects with our open calls etc. to get GNU Taler integrated into as many free software projects as possible, before GLS’s opens their gates and makes Taler publicly available.
Would love some feedback on this idea and even more to get first proposals collected here!
Forgejo would be a good candidate, similar to how Github has Sponsors integration.
The people behind it from Codeberg.org (a German non-profit) seem to be aware of Taler and were generally interested when I mentioned this on the Fediverse, but they seem to lack contributors willing to tackle this.
Another project that I know off and my initial reason to start this thread is beabee home - beabee.
It is a tool for “Community Relationship Management to run a community-first newsroom” which allows you to also set up a membership scheme with monetization (@sascha.foerster pls correct me if I am mistaken).
Here I also know that there is interest in an integration but missing resources to do it on their own.
Another candidate is CiviCRM, which I know is used at several NGOs. Having TALER in there would support donating anonymously. List of experts - don’t get irritated by the ones near the top are USA-based. There are several in the EU, too.
Searching the web for “open source shop software” yields several " these are the best" listings.
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Out of these, Vue Storefront might be interesting. It is just a frontend platform for headless commerce. It only powers the frontend, and users will need a separate solution to power the backend of the online store (e.g. Tryton). Thus when adding TALER here, many sops could profit regardless of the backend they use. (OTOH, if I 'd use a backend like Tryton, I don’t want to have the frontend handling payments.)
A bit of a niche is software for community supported agriculture (Solidarische Landwirtschaft). Anyhow, these people might be open for non-capitalistic payment methods (please ignore the inherent contradiction).
OpenOlitor seems to integrate payment. Contact in Germany: sunu
juntagrico seem to include buying and recall shares online, which would require payment
CSA-Admin seems to be used in Switherland a lot. Seems to include a small online-shop.
For Tapir I have not clue whether they include payments (beside buying coop shares).
Indeed CiviCRM would be a great candidate we are already in contact, will make sure they are aware of the open call rythm.
Please can you ask them to register on ICH we will then be able to support them and maybe think on ways to associate them with supporting interested people.
I do not know about them at all but we certainly can reach out
The search provider MetaGer might be interested. Since September they offer search only paid, but without advertisements and - as they claim - anonymously. Anyhow (of course the only anonymous payment method they provide is cash.
BTW: Are there alternatives like MetaGer in other countries?
the only anonymous payment method they provide is cash.