Mudlet Sponsorship Plan

Funding Goal Ideas

(those are yearly costs, they add up)

1. $100 Apple code signing certificate
2. $600 Windows code signing certificate from digicert ($499.00 for one year)
3. $1050 Windows code signing certificate for 2 years from digicert ($475 per year, saves a bit of money)
4. $1350 Additional windows CI job (would possibly allow us to create 64-bit windows binaries without delay, appveyor charges $25 per additional job per month)
5. $???? Additional travis (macOS?) CI jobs (we'd need to contact travis support for a quote)

Contributor Tier Ideas

1. $1: Discord role
2. $5: Private Q&A channel with devs
3. $10: Stickers (we'd need to design and order them first)
4. $15: Coding livestreams (regularly, different topics (Mudlet, scripts)?)
5. $50: Mentioning on about page

Points from other creators

• Publicize it regularly
• Create a Discord role
• Have the $1 tier
• stickers :D (designed by Stephen!)
• Coding livestreams
• Coding Q&A videos
• Live coding sessions of Mudlet scripts

Come up with reward ideas

• Discord role
• Private Q&A channel with devs
  • Alternatively a half-public channel, in that all can read answers, but not all can write

Anti-ideas we are not implementing:

• Getting your game listed
• Putting advertising on mudlet.org

Investigate other platforms

Keneanung checked out other platforms that Github supports - none are all that popular and Patreon had the lowest fees.

Be mindful of doing it wrong

• don't want anyone to feel left out - Mudlet is gonna be free, and we're not doing this to make people without money feel bad (practically speaking the amount that'll care will not be high, but still!)