Title: Launching on Patreon | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 13 March 2023 | |
Tags: blog life patreon | |
Description: If you enjoy my work, now you can express it by sponsoring | |
me financially through the platform Patreon. | |
# Introduction | |
Let me share some breaking news, if you enjoy this blog and my open | |
source work, now you can sponsor me through the service Patreon. | |
Patreon page to sponsor me | |
Why would you do that in the first place? Well, this would allow me to | |
take time off my job, and spend it either writing on the blog, or by | |
contributing to open source projects, mainly OpenBSD or a bit of | |
nixpkgs. | |
I've been publishing on the blog for almost 7 years now, for the most | |
recent years, I've been writing a lot here, and I still enjoy doing so! | |
However, I have a less free time now, and I'd prefer to continue | |
writing here instead of working at my job full time. I've been | |
ocasionaly receiving donation for my blog work, but one-shot gifts (I | |
appreciate! :-) ) won't help me much against regular monthly incomes | |
that I can expect, and help me to organize myself with my job. | |
# What's the benefit for Patrons? | |
I chose Patreon because the platform is reliable and offers managing | |
some extras for the people patronizing me. | |
Let be clear about the advantages: | |
* you will ocasionaly be offered to choose the topic for the blog post | |
I'm writing. I often can't decide what to write about when I look at | |
my pipe of ideas. | |
* you will have access to the new blog posts a few days in advance. | |
* you give me incentive to write better content in order to make you | |
happy of your expenses. | |
# What won't change | |
This may sound scary to some I suppose, so let's answer some questions | |
in advance: | |
* the blog will stay free for everyone. | |
* the blog will stay JS-free, and no design change are to be expected. | |
* the blog won't include ads, sponsored ads or any "influencer" style | |
things. | |
* publishing on alternate protocols gopher and gemini will continue | |
* content will be distributed under a CC-BY-4.0 licence (free to | |
use/reuse). | |
# Just a note | |
It's hard for me to frame exactly what I'll be working on. I include | |
the OpenBSD webzine as an extension of the blog, and sometimes ports | |
work too because I'm writing about a program, I go down the rabbit-hole | |
of updating it, and then there is a whole story to tell. | |
To conclude, let me thank you if you plan to support me financially, | |
every bit will help, even small sponsors. I'm really motivated by | |
this, I want to promote community driven open source projects such as | |
OpenBSD, but I also want to cover a topic that matters a lot to me | |
which is old hardware reuse. I highlighted this with the old computer | |
challenge, but this is also the core of all my self-hosting articles | |
and what drives me when using computers. | |
# Asked Questions | |
I'll collect here asked questions (not yet frequently asked though), | |
and my answers: | |
* Do you accept crypto currency? The answer is no. |