Re: Donations after new releases.

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

They only need $1000 more. Please send money!
Send this email to yourself every week and your doing good.

See, this is a little silly. Art, Theo and a few others have asked
repeatedly for money over the last few months because the grant was
ending. Now that it has ended it is pretty obvious that they need more
money.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] 
> On Behalf Of Alex Kirk
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 22:53
> To: siivv
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Donations after new releases.
> 
> 
> In all seriousness, this would probably be a good idea. I 
> think people would 
> respond better to "we only need $1,000 more to hit our goal 
> of <$amount>" 
> than "please donate, we really need the money". I'm not 
> saying that people 
> shouldn't encourage donations, of course -- but generally 
> speaking, goals 
> actually do improve performance. 
> 
> Besides, it's not like it'd be that hard to do. I assume that 
> notification 
> of donations comes to a central address somewhere. If that's 
> the case, 
> setting up a script to check that mailbox and update a 
> database (or, heck, a 
> simple text file with a total) should be simple, right? Heck, 
> if privacy 
> issues can be appropriately accounted for (and I have no idea 
> what those 
> are, since I know nothing about the info that flows in with a 
> donation), I'd 
> be happy to maintain this myself. It'd be the least I can do, 
> since my 
> personal economics limit me to buying one CD per release and 
> the occasional 
> minor (<$50) donation. 
> 
> Anyone on the project team, if you think this might be a good 
> idea, please 
> contact me off-list so we can discuss feasibility. 
> 
> Alex Kirk 
> 
> > bringing this project on step closer to PBS...
> > now if only sally struthers is available...
> > =)
> > 
> > 
> > scott
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Hugo wrote:
> > 
> >> Just a thought,
> >>
> >> It would be nice to see a "donation-o-meter" after each release on 
> >> the OpenBSD donnation's page.  (Atleast for a few weeks).
> >>
> >> It may give the community goals to reach when donating...
> >>
> >> + it would be nice see if we would be able to raise that 
> darn, lost 
> >> + but not
> >> forgotten, 2 million ourselves in some reasonable laps of time.
> >>
> >> Just a thought...
> >>
> >> Hugo
> > 
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