Kbin Foundation when?

mmaramara@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 5 points –

When will there be a Kbin Foundation that:

  1. collects and handles money to help build Kbin (right now I don't see a single "donate" button)
  2. owns any property of Kbin (like domain and git), so that the board of the foundation can decide what's done with it if ernest kicks the bucket or goes insane
  3. has a board that can make decisions about Kbin to spread power from one person to many?

@ernest
I don't even know how pinging works :)

I'll gladly become a donor when I see that Kbin will not be a one-guy-show for long, but a serious project that will outlive it's creator. If ernest is not actively planning to have this project live even without himself, then I bet it's not going to last.

Please comment any thoughts you have, and have a nice summer!

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@static "I don't even know how pinging works :)"

So for non-techy dude that sounds more business oriente in their question, I can clarify that everything that kbin is or can be is public code that anybody can copy and build from. It's duplicated already by everyone that makes their own instance, and people can make their own edits. for #1, it's all donation. #2, it's all what ernest can churn out before he croaks or gets bored but kbin is just a bin of code that everyone can toss into, there is no singular domain to own. #3 every instance has their own power over their site. It's like Wordpress. Wordpress is the source code to make things easier on the website builder. Kbin is just the website builder like WordPress. What users make of it is up to them and doesn't require a board for each website to be made. We (the user) can request changes that get voted on by other users and can be implemented or not if someone knows how to contribute the code.

@ernest @mmaramara

So for non-techy dude that sounds more business oriente in their question, I can clarify that everything that kbin is or can be is public code that anybody can copy and build from.

Correct.

In the long term more stability like a foundation would be best, but I think Ernest needs some time for that, and we have time.

To expand a bit:

What is already happening is that kbin source code is getting more contributors to the code, his role is changing
from sole developer to gatekeeper.
There are lots of different names here : https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls