On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:18, Maria McKinley wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > On 16 Jul 2007 at 16:30, Dan Langille wrote: > > > > > >>On 16 Jul 2007 at 22:19, Francisco Rodrigo Cortinas Ma wrote: > >> > >> > >>>- In the fact that you need funding, the right way is to ask for > >>>"donations". This will remain valid as long as the project > >> > >>remains > >> > >>>"small". > >> > >>We have asked for donations. In a prevoius email, Kern mentioned > >>this has been about $8000 since 2000. That's about $4 a day. Given > >>the number of users, it's pretty clear that donations don't work. > > > > > > Please ignore my calculations. They are not based on fact. I messed > > up. My apologies. > > > > My point remains: donations are insufficient to fund the project > > > > I was just looking around on the website to figure out how to make a > donation,
Thank you very much :-) > and it isn't at all obvious to me how to do that. Maybe having > a link on the side bar to donations would help? There is a high > "reluctance factor" to making donations. If people make a 2-3 minute > effort, and it isn't immediately obvious how to give money, or it seems > a pain, then they are likely to just skip it. Not that I think that this > would suddenly make donations high enough to fund the project, but it > certainly couldn't hurt... Donations have been possible for some time (a year or two), but they are no longer possible. Thank you to those who have already donated. I pulled down the donations page a few weeks ago when a user complained that the Bacula expenses were not transparent and he was reluctant to fund projects because of the possibility that the code would never be completed. Once a corporation is in place, perhaps I will re-install the donations page -- who knows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
