GrapheneOSWe've built our own text-to-speech system with an initial English language model we trained ourselves with fully open source data. It will be added to our App Store soon and then included in GrapheneOS as a default enabled TTS backend once some more improvements are made to it.
Marcial 🇨🇷🇻🇪@GrapheneOS For those who do not have neither GitHub accounts or crypto, do y’all have plans to set up funding channels through the likes of LiberaPay, OpenCollective, etc?
@moshimotsu We have a bunch of donations options including local bank transfers with very low fees via Wise or sending money via Wise itself which has no fee if it's a matching currency. We already have a lot of options and adding more results in higher costs for managing it and handling accounting. We have to spend a huge amount of money on accounting and also auditing. The more complex the finances, the more money we'll need to spend on that. Why not use bank transfers or Wise?
@moshimotsu GitHub Sponsors provides credit card donations with 0% fees for donations from individuals which isn't something we can get elsewhere. The fees elsewhere are often over 5% when currency conversion is taken into account. We don't want to move more of the donations to high fee platforms. We have PayPal as a donation method but our donate page tries to make sure people understand the high fees and that it's better to donate another way such as GitHub Sponsors, Wise or bank transfers.
@GrapheneOS The processing fee problem is super valid. If people can donate that way, more power to them, but in an ideal world, less techy users who might not have GitHub would still be able to donate through a channel that’s familiar to them.
It might be worth doing a poll on here, just to gauge general sentiment? “To those who don’t donate but would like to, what’s the biggest barrier?” and see if not having those platforms is causing a significant figure to avoid donating.