2) Let a project have a private, or a public, allocation of how funding goes. At first, simple percents would be awesome.
3) Let a project assign funding to another project. Probably one it depends on.
4) For a given project, let me see which other projects are funding it.
5) Allow the set up of Unions. These five projects all have one pool where all the money goes, which is then divided back to the projects by some percentage.
6) Fund a charity. If this person or project receives money, please directly send it to a specified charity instead. (Don't make the person who receives the donation have to handle the paperwork for it.)
7) Try to make it easy to set up a sponsorship in your will
8) Let a project use their funding to pay for hosting, directly. So, I give to some project, they pay for CPU and Storage on some cloud host.
I'm certain there are legal complications with all of these ideas. If you solve the legal issues, that would be amazing. Cheers!
For #1, it looks like that's coming? The documentation[1] has been updated for project sponsor buttons to include up to 4 github-sponsor enabled users. I can't find a project using it yet, but I imagine this divides your donation to the project among the 4?
Some Feature Requests:
1) Let me sponsor a project, not a person
2) Let a project have a private, or a public, allocation of how funding goes. At first, simple percents would be awesome.
3) Let a project assign funding to another project. Probably one it depends on.
4) For a given project, let me see which other projects are funding it.
5) Allow the set up of Unions. These five projects all have one pool where all the money goes, which is then divided back to the projects by some percentage.
6) Fund a charity. If this person or project receives money, please directly send it to a specified charity instead. (Don't make the person who receives the donation have to handle the paperwork for it.)
7) Try to make it easy to set up a sponsorship in your will
8) Let a project use their funding to pay for hosting, directly. So, I give to some project, they pay for CPU and Storage on some cloud host.
I'm certain there are legal complications with all of these ideas. If you solve the legal issues, that would be amazing. Cheers!