@edwardlau We're maintaining ~5% of donors to #buffsallin coming from Mastodon. Only 14 hours left. It only takes 5 min. Donating any amount helps keep Mastodon listed in the reports.
And now, according to https://www.linkedin-status.com/ LinkedIn.com is down? I couldn't have scripted a better story for why universities should ad federated options to their social mix.
I've thought about using CU's fundraising structure to start a FOSS Fund at CU, but I now have a newfound respect for everyone who raises $$ for any organization. Getting people to donate even a few $$ regardless of how much I like the technology/organization is much harder than I thought it would be.
@stpaultim THANKS! It's pretty humbling to be this wrong about a community's willingness to part with even $1 and 5 minutes of their time. I thought it would be easy to blow past 10 donors to make a point about the potential of open, federated social. Really respect the folks out there asking for donations for any organization every day.
Can you help me boost this thread... or donate as little as $1 yourself using the link so we can get Mastodon to register in the reports CU Boulder's marketing teams use to evaluate the effectiveness of the Buffs All In campaign? It only takes a few minutes, but will have a big impact. Donating to CMCI is also a GREAT way to show your support for Mastodon & open source/standards.
Can you help me boost this thread... or donate as a little as $1 yourself using the link so we can get Mastodon to register in the reports CU Boulder's marketing teams will be using to evaluate the effectiveness of the Buffs All In campaign? It only takes a few minutes, but will have a big impact. Donating to CMCI is a GREAT way to show your support for Mastodon & open source/standards.
Can you help me boost this thread... or donate as a little as $1 yourself using the link so we can get Mastodon to register in the reports CU Boulder's marketing teams will be using to evaluate the effectiveness of the Buffs All In campaign? It only takes a few minutes, but will have a big impact. Donating to CMCI is a GREAT way to show your support for Mastodon & open source/standards.
Can you help me boost this thread... or possibly donate as a little as $1 yourself using the link so we can get Mastodon to register in the reports CU Boulder's marketing teams will be using toe evaluate the effectiveness of the Buffs All In campaign? Donating to CMCI is a GREAT way to show your support for Mastodon & as open source/standards https://fosstodon.org/@kreynen/112020782156970455
Would you like to see higher adoption of Mastodon in higher education?
Here’s an opportunity “tip the scale” & show #CUBoulder that Mastodon can be an effective part of their social strategy while ALSO supporting an organization doing amazing work in the fediverse. If you use this link to donate to the College of Media, Communication & Information, the source of the donation will show up as coming from Mastodon.
The UI suggests $25, but you can donate as little as $1
Donating using the link in the post above is win/win. It lets our fundraising groups see that Mastodon is worth investing resources in AND the $$ goes to a group already investing in Mastodon!
"Domains that serve popular 3rd party scripts are a huge security concern. The team at http://google-analytics.com for example could read or modify almost any website in the world .
If you own a website, loading a script implies an incredible relationship of trust with that third party. Do you actually trust them?" - Andrew Betts (creator of the polyfill service project)
Reading about the polyfill.io drama makes me glad we were finally able to sunset the Drupal.org packaging allowlist this year. Packaging scripts that rely on just regex patterns to determine whether to trust including whatever a URL returns in a build were never a great idea. Trusting those URLs for 12 years as they were allowed to expire and change hands took a real leap of faith by anyone installing a Drupal 7 distribution. Composer is just better at packaging dependencies in every way.
"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." - Andrew Lewis from 2010 (summarizing Richard Serra from 1973)
To be fair, it isn't WordPress the open source CMS selling user content. It's WordPress.com, the hosting provider. A large number of the ~6 million WP instances hosted on wordpress.com are paying nothing or very little/less than the cost to operate the service. If Drupal Gardens still existed, I'm sure they'd be looking into this revenue stream.