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Whit, I did a lot of loans via Kiva (I saw that you did mention this in some of your comparisons) and even with indiegogo to total stranger after reading about their stories on google+. I did also donate to several developers using flattr.

I would like to donate via gittip but I see some issues: a) As a non U.S. resident/citizen I only used trusted providers like paypal for the above mentioned donations/loans (both kiva and indiegogo support it) b) Anonymous: this is in general a turn off. You did mention Kiva and how people pay to be part of the story. This is very right but don't forget the show off power of Kiva. I don't know if this is right or wrong but for any donation I did not want to be anonymous. I honestly doubt that a developer would take a tip or donation as a limitation of freedom but what I do know is that it takes a lot of away from the donor. At any rate I applaud your initiative but I think that paypal is a must.

Hey whit,

So my understanding is the payment service is more settled now. What will be the focus for the upcoming weeks? What is the next major feature?

Thanks for this great platform!

Thanks for asking. The payins side has settled, yes. We now have all but three stragglers moved from Stripe to Balanced, and the stragglers are likely bad cards. The next three priorities are:

1. Payouts: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/22

2. Redesign: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/66

3. Tipping to email addresses: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/89

My goal is to knock these out one a week over the next three weeks. I'm hoping we can get a solid growth bump with each one. I'd like to be moving at least $2,000 per week by the time I go to XOXO in mid-September, hopefully more.

We were going to make a 1k donation instead of directly contacting, but because it's anon we were turned off.

*Change that and we will still do it :)

Do I understand you right that you're offering me a gift of $1,000? If so, thank you! Let's handle that via PayPal or check. For PayPal let's use mammon@whit537.org, or you can mail a check to:

Chad Whitacre 716 Park Road Ambridge, PA 15003 USA

I will be happy to publicize the gift. Can you tell me who "we" refers to? And can I ask if you'd mind saying a few words about the intention behind your gift? If you want to talk by voice I'm whit537 on Skype and my cell is +1-412-925-4220.

Are we supposed to see bar charts? It's all blank here, just numbers floating around (Chrome 21b).

You're not supposed to see bar charts, just numbers floating around. "Show data and comparisons." - Tufte

I see. While I agree with the intention, I find it a bit hard to get a grasp on scale and trends without any guidance.

The data is actually in JSON if you want to do your own visualization. :-)

https://www.gittip.com/about/paydays.json

You can view source on charts.html for example usage.

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