This issue is just a public explanation of why Riju moved to a GitHub Organization, and what the implications are. I should have posted this earlier, but the honest reason why I didn't is I was in the middle of moving apartments and I just forgot! (I did announce it other places, though, like https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el/issues/946.)
Why I did it:
- Donations for Riju were going to my personal bank account, and to be more honest and transparent about how I was spending those donations, I wanted to use a separate business account instead. (financial records from my personal spending; financial records from my business account)
- GitHub Organizations have a lot more options than personal accounts; in particular, it's now possible for me to grant a lot more access to collaborators on my various open-source projects than it was before.
- In the United States, anyone can wreck your life with a malicious lawsuit if they have enough money to spend on it. This is something I've been threatened with in the past, and it sucked. My lawyer advised me that one of the best ways to avoid something like that happening again is to conduct my open-source work as part of an LLC that I set up for this purpose, so this is me following that advice.
What actually changed:
- The GitHub repositories moved from https://github.com/raxod502 to https://github.com/radian-software (but there are redirects from the old locations, so existing tooling should continue to work).
- The license notices updated their copyright statements to say "Radian LLC and contributors" instead of "Radon Rosborough" (but they are all still under MIT licensing).
- The contact email addresses changed from [email protected] to [email protected] (but I still read both of them).
- All of my infrastructure for these projects (AWS, Heroku, Fathom, etc.) moved to separate accounts specifically for Radian LLC, with billing from a separate business account (but the same things are running on them).
- I created separate donation accounts (GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, PayPal, etc.) for Radian LLC and got rid of the ones that go to me personally.
More FAQ available at https://radian.codes/.
On May 12, I sent out this message to my GitHub Sponsors (thank you, @JoshuaTheMiller @JasonSteving99 @plondon @romatthe @shanesveller!) explaining that any future donations would need to be re-routed:
TLDR: Please move your sponsorship from https://github.com/sponsors/raxod502 to https://github.com/sponsors/radian-software, it will help me keep making projects like Riju!
Hey friends,
I'm finally moving my projects to a GitHub organization @radian-software rather than my personal account @raxod502. This does a couple of things:
Makes it easier to collaborate with other open-source developers on projects like straight.el and Selectrum, since GitHub limits many of its collaboration features to organizations.
Lets me keep the finances for donations totally separate from my personal bank account, so that I can be extra sure I'm not accidentally using the money on something unrelated to these open-source projects. (All my open-source finances will be publicly available on GitHub going forward, as they have been already for Riju.)
Allows me to conduct open-source work as part of a limited liability company that I formed, which will let me be less scared of people who want to use their money to shut down open-source work, if heaven forbid that kind of situation should come up again. Frankly I would have preferred to just not deal with the paperwork, but after the Replit situation, a lawyer told me this is what you're supposed to do as someone who puts out a lot of open-source work, even if you're not interested in starting a company.
Anyway, to make this happen, what I'm asking from you is a simple bookkeeping change: to move your existing sponsorship from https://github.com/sponsors/raxod502 to https://github.com/sponsors/radian-software at your convenience.
In case you're curious, for the foreseeable future, the vast majority of donations will go to Riju, as they do currently. I've also put some other pieces of open-source infrastructure under the radian-software organization, like GNU ELPA Mirror and Tidier. There are some other pieces of overhead, like domain name fees from Namecheap, a separate email domain, and some government fees for running a company, but I'm trying to keep those minimal compared to infrastructure costs. In any case, everything will be publicly reported on GitHub.
One new project I'm working on is a miniature educational clone of the Heroku platform, deployed on Kubernetes. It's a bit in the same vein as Riju, but with a different focus. Like Riju was an experiment in learning about containerization technology, this new project is an experiment in learning about Kubernetes and container orchestration at a larger scale. If it works out, I'll make it a public thing people can register accounts on and deploy their own web applications onto.
If you have any questions about this change, any of the projects I'm working on, or anything else, feel free to reach out! I'm always happy to chat.
Best,
Radon
My personal account has not had any hosting expenses since early May, and everything since then has been paid out of my business account. I've submitted a ticket to GitHub Support today asking for them to disable my personal sponsor account, and (as promised) have donated the leftover proceeds from my personal account to the EFF.
I think sending and recieving each character base64-encoded, similar to how I do it with https://github.com/hello-smile6/libv86-terminal-forwarding/ , might fix it.
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