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Chad Whitacre
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@abnor got hung up trying to talk to us through BotBot. Until that's possible (may it be soon!), let's link over to Freenode's webchat.
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4.9 KiB
HTML
117 lines
4.9 KiB
HTML
title = "About"
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^L
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{% extends templates/about.html %}
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{% block page %}
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<div class="col">
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<h2>What Is Gittip?</h2>
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<p>Gittip is a way to give <b>small weekly cash gifts</b> to people you
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love and are inspired by.</p>
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<p>Gifts are <b>weekly</b>. The intention is for people to depend on money
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received through Gittip in order to pay their bills, and bills are
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recurring.</p>
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<p>Gifts come with <b>no strings attached</b>. You don't know exactly where
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your gifts come from, and the maximum gift from one person to another is
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$24.</p>
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<p>Gifts are <b>public</b>. The <i>total</i> amount you give and the
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<i>total</i> amount you receive is public. Participants on both sides of
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the equation are rewarded publicly for their participation. (You can opt
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out of publicly displaying your total giving.)</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col1">
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<a name="details"></a>
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<h2>Details</h2>
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<p>Gifts are distributed <b>every Thursday</b>. Gifts come out of your
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current balance (the money people have given to you), and if that's not
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enough, Gittip can charge your credit card to make up the difference. We
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add an additional <b>30¢ + 3.9%</b> fee when pulling money in from
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your credit card, to cover credit card processing (as well as hosting and
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other expenses). We also charge you no less than <b>$10</b> at a time, to
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minimize credit card processing fees. Any extra remains in your account to
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be used next week. Recipients get the <b>full face value</b> of your gift
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to them. If you give someone $3, they will have $3 in their Gittip account
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every Thursday until you run out of money.</p>
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<p>For example, let's say that you have $2.00 in your account, and
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you are set up to give $1.00 each to 20 people. Here's what we will
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charge your credit card on Thursday:</p>
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<p style="font-family: monospace; font-size: smaller; padding-left: 33%;">
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$ 1.00<br />
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<u>x 20 </u> people<br />
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$20.00 total gittips<br />
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<u>-$ 2.00</u> current balance<br />
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<b>$18.00 amount needed</b><br />
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<u>+$ 0.30</u> fee<br />
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$18.30<br />
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<u>x 1.039</u> fee<br />
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<b>$19.02 amount to charge</b><br />
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<u>-$18.00</u> <br />
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$ 1.02 total fee<br />
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</p>
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<p>Participants in the U.S. can <a
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href="https://www.gittip.com/bank-account.html">connect a bank
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account</a> to have funds <a
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href="http://blog.gittip.com/post/30116848405/with-payouts-gittip-is-minimally-viable">deposited
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weekly</a> (less a $0.30 fee). It takes one business day for deposits
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to clear, so generally they will <b>clear on Friday</b>. We're
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working on automated payouts <a
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href="https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/issues/126">outside the
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U.S.</a> Right now they're handled manually—<a
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href="#contact-us">contact us</a> as needed—with postage and/or
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fees charged at cost.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col2">
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<a name="get-involved"></a>
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<h2>Get Involved</h2>
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<p>Everyone is invited to help build Gittip. <a
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href="http://www.zetaweb.com/">Zetaweb</a> is the legal entity behind
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Gittip, but most of the people working on Gittip are unofficial volunteers.
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We use two main tools to coordinate our work:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><b>GitHub</b> (different than Gittip!) is a <a
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href="https://github.com/zetaweb">collaboration platform</a>
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designed specifically for software teams. Anyone can register an
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account there and participate in discussions on any issues related to
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Gittip.</li>
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<li><b>Freenode</b> is an internet relay chat (IRC) network. It's for
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online chatrooms. We hang out in the <a
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href="irc://irc.freenode.net:6697/#gittip">#gittip</a> channel. You
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can <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=gittip">join</a> in
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using your web browser, and there's a read-only <a
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href="https://botbot.me/freenode/gittip/">archive</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>We also use Skype and Google Hangouts to talk by voice and/or video. Our
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Freenode chatroom is the launching place for these conversations.</p>
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<a name="contact-us"></a>
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<h2>Contact Us</h2>
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<p>GitHub and Freenode are great ways to get in touch (see just above).
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You're also welcome to contact Gittip's founder, <a
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href="/whit537/">Chad Whitacre</a>, via <a
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href="https://twitter.com/whit537">@whit537</a> or <a
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href="mailto:chad@zetaweb.com">email</a> or by phone at <a
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href="tel:+1-412-925-4220">+1-412-925-4220</a>, or visit him at
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716 Park Road in Ambridge, PA, 15003, USA.</p>
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</div>
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{% end %}
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