Elementary OS just announced plans to enhance their quite successful Pay-what-you-want app store platform "AppCenter" and extend its reach into other platforms. From what I understand, this includes a new payment wallet system that other platforms can take advantage to increase funding streams. I was wondering whether this is something Ubports and the OpenStore could benefit from as well, as simplified donation/purchase system could increase the income of developers.

I thought it might be worth mentioning here that there is currently a crowdfunding campaign to create a truly open-source and native Linux UX tool called Akira.

Since industry leading tools like Adobe UX or Sketch etc. are paid, closed source and not available on Linux that could be a real game changer for the Linux desktop (and potentially convergent Unity8).

You can learn more and hopefully support it on the Kickstarter campaign page.

Please spread the word!