Re: Donations after new releases.

[Hugo <hugol@ece.mcgill.ca>]

It's not so much a question of wether or not it's obvious that they need money 
(or how much).  We all know that if we want our favorite OS to get better 
faster and for longer the more money we donate the better it is for the 
project.

The main idea here is to be able to "track" our efforts as a community. 

I think that everyone would agree with me here  that seing steady donation 
flows is a very encouraging thing for other project supporters. 

Since we are not all the best coders, we cannot all contribute to the project 
technically.  Therefore we give a few bucks to the project in the hopes that 
it may help the developers do their work. 

In short, it would be nice to have an approx. idea of just how much we're 
contributing to the success of OpenBSD.

Hugo

On May 2, 2003 08:23 am, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> 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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