1. Micropayments
in Open Source and Drupal

2. We have a problem
People want to support the things they like

3. But the world is
Black & White

4. Who am I?
• Pelle Wessman
• Malmö, Sweden
• Front end developer,
Flattr
• Drupal freelancer,
formerly fulltime at
Good Old for 3 years

5. Black & White
• Money transactions online are complex and
expensive
• A limited amount of things are worth that
effort
• A wide gap between things that get money and
those who don’t

6. The tail is missing
• Donations has become easier through services
like Kickstarter
• Treshold still too high - the long tail of smaller
donations is missing
• Forcing people to pay money is like an aspirin -
makes it a bit better, but doesn’t cure anything

7. Micropayments vs. App Store
• Micro-donations is another way to ”pay it
forward”. App Stores are anti-collaborative.
• Micro-donations focuses on creations and
ideas. App Stores focuses on prices.
• App Stores stifles exploration - Micro-
donations encourages it
• ”Getting paid” !== receiving money

8. A social micro-payment system

9. It’s micro
Small transactions, mostly below €1

10. It’s easy
One click donations

11. It’s safe
Fixed monthly total - like a cake

12. It’s cheap
No fixed fees

13. It’s sustainable
Subscriptions repeats a
click every month

14. It’s curation
Ranks things by what people are willing to support

15. It’s p2p
All users are the same.
Everyone can give - Everyone can receive

16. It’s open
Dropped our give-to-get requirement this month

17. It’s evolving
Soon: Flattr all Twitter users

18. The impact
• Enables all things, no matter how small, to get
money - no longer any gap
• Makes it possible for people to support the
things they like without having to think in
terms of money
• Driving the long tail of donations enabling
more people to receive more money
• (Flattr also does fixed fee donations €2-50)

19. In Drupal
How can we use micropayments?

20. Drupal.org

21. Projects
Enable maintainers to add Flattr buttons to the
project pages

22. Users
Let users add a button to their profiles

23. In issue queues
Let all issues and issue comments be flattrable

24. Drupal Association
Revenue sharing?

25. donate[] in .info
WordPress does it - should we?

26. Flattr API
REST + OAuth = Mashability

27. drush flattr views
Donating from the command line.
The definition of awesome?

28. Contrib module
For supporting a site’s modules - list all modules
that has a Flattr button

29. Buttons on your own site
There’s a module for that!
http://drupal.org/project/flattr

30. Who should get the money?

31. Drupal Alliances?
Voluntary organisations that pools members
donations together and uses them to eg. fund
projects and sprints.

32. Micropayments
• People want to support things they like
• Micropayments enables them to easily do so
• Flattr one, hopefully, good such system
• Drupal could benefit from using it in one or
many ways

33. The Savior?
No, but icing on the cake.

34. One more thing…
Flattr Meetup friday 13:th in Malmö

35. That’s it!
Find Flattr online:
flattr.com
Find me at Drupal.org, Twitter, GitHub:
@voxpelli