Mudlet Sponsorship Plan

Funding Goal Ideas

(those are yearly costs, they add up)

$100 Apple code signing certificate
$600 Windows code signing certificate from digicert ($499.00 for one year)
$1050 Windows code signing certificate for 2 years from digicert ($475 per year, saves a bit of money)
$1350 Additional windows CI job (would possibly allow us to create 64-bit windows binaries without delay, appveyor charges $25 per additional job per month)
$???? Additional travis (macOS?) CI jobs (we'd need to contact travis support for a quote)
Steam store listing? Windows store listing?
Bounties for complicated projects?

$1: Discord role
$5: Private Q&A channel with devs. Participate in polls
$10: Stickers (we'd need to design and order them first)
$15: Coding livestreams topic selection (regularly, different topics, livestreams open to all)
$25: Discord cool role
$50: Mentioning on about page. Demonnic will turn you a pen on his lathe.

Interesting ideas:

Discord role (or multiple tiered)
Private Q&A channel with devs
- Alternatively a half-public channel, in that all can read answers, but not all can write
~~Stickers~~ (we'd need to design and order them first)
Coding livestreams
- regularly
- different topics
  - Mudlet
  - scripts
Mentioning on about page
- Have this tiered as well? For example like this
- Mention name
- Mention name and image
- Mention name, image and tool-tip shown on mouse-over
- Mention name, image, tool-tip and be clickable/link somewhere (no 18+)

Anti-ideas we are not implementing:

Keneanung checked out other platforms that Github supports - none are all that popular and Patreon had the lowest fees.
- which ones were checked? --> The ones mentioned in https://help.github.com/en/articles/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository#about-funding-files

don't want anyone to feel left out - Mudlet is gonna be free, and we're not doing this to make people without money feel bad (practically speaking the amount that'll care will not be high, but still!)