Gittip is fast becoming a valuable source of funding for Drupal contributors (see the Drupal community page for examples). If it were more closely integrated into drupal.org the potential for helping our community would be even bigger.

It would be nice to create a profile field for this service. Already 21 people have added a gittip link to their profile somewhere.

Potential ideas once this is done that are not possible until then:
* A contrib module that looks at modules installed on your site, finds their maintainers, and then helps you tip the authors of the module.
* Other stuff.

Specific field proposal

https://drupal.org/admin/user/profile/add/url
* Category: Personal Information
* Title "Gittip profile url"
* profile_gittip_url
* Explanation: Add the url of your profile on https://www.gittip.com/
* Visibility: Public field, content shown on profile page but not used on member list pages.
* Rest: defaults

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wim leers
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Yes!

A contrib module that looks at modules installed on your site, finds their maintainers, and then helps you tip the authors of the module.

That's precisely what I've been thinking too!

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greggles
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Status: Active » Needs review

Alexpott is now making enough on gittip to fund his work for the next 5 months. Other community members are making smaller but still substantial amounts that help their work (e.g. patrickd at $80+).

There are already 28 people who have added gittip to a profile field on d.o!

I've updated the issue body with the full proposal for this field and basically consider it RTBC.

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dddave commented

To not make this look like a unilateral process: +1

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kattekrab commented

Yep I also think this is worth doing.

Especially as it seems very hard to discover all the 400+ Drupal members of the community currently via gittip itself. It only shows the 12 newest, most giving and most receiving. I'd like to dig down deeper than that....

- D.

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greggles
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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Thanks, Kattekrab for the +1 and reminder. Now done :)

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wim leers
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Yay :)

P.S.: greggles, I think you made a typo. The gittip profile field shows up in a separate "Personal Information" fieldset, rather than in the existing "Personal information" fieldset. Note the different capitalization for "information". You may want to fix that :)

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greggles
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Title: Add a profile field for gittip » Add a profile field for gittip and fix all Personal Information fields to Personal information
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Hmm.

There were a lot of fields like that. Fixed now?

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wim leers
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Bizarre! Yes, it's fixed now :)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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