This comment kinda makes the whole crap process worth it, just so you know. Thanks -- it means a lot.
Direct donation is something a little iffy, accounting-wise, but we implemented the "random gifts" feature precisely so people who wanted to give us money, but who didn't need paid time for themselves, could have a route to pay us. Barring that, we had originally talked about separating the hosted service and the OSS work into two separate orgs, with the OSS work being a 501(c)(3), and given all the work that we've done in terms of FLOSS mentoring, and how well it's been turning out, that might be more worth looking into now. (Correspondingly more work, of course, but still...)
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Direct donation is something a little iffy, accounting-wise, but we implemented the "random gifts" feature precisely so people who wanted to give us money, but who didn't need paid time for themselves, could have a route to pay us. Barring that, we had originally talked about separating the hosted service and the OSS work into two separate orgs, with the OSS work being a 501(c)(3), and given all the work that we've done in terms of FLOSS mentoring, and how well it's been turning out, that might be more worth looking into now. (Correspondingly more work, of course, but still...)