gEDA-user: Funding for server
Peter Clifton wrote: It wouldn't take many people willing to contribute £2 per month (say), to fund a server, but getting infrastructure set up to make this kind of donation would be a pain. There is chipin.com ChipIn does not charge any fees to organizers and contributors of events that send payments directly to the Organizer’s PayPal account. However, PayPal Premier or Business accounts may be subject to fees from PayPal. It is a site that accounts for pledges. It could help with infrastructure so that small payments can be made via the free gift mode of paypal... and if spread out enough, the recipient does not require a pro account with fees, which happens above $500 per month. If a chipin event fund campaign was started for every 6 months of fees, it would be just $180 and wouldn't go over the paypal gift limit. Getting this to happen again and again would be easy. they have tools for it -- Promote Embed the ChipIn Widget on your favorite Web site or create your own ChipIn page at yourname.chipin.com John ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Funding for server
I find adverts generally annoying. That's fair enough. There are better alternatives than advertisements to get the website funded. Yes and no. I'm certainly willing to chip in, and so is my company. However, one-time contributions are things need to be negotiated or processed on a continuing basis. That takes person-effort that would (IMHO) better be spent elsewhere on the project. The reason that I brought up advertising is that it is an established model for *continuous* funding. And, the slippery slope is already there. As a whole, gEDA is already accepting advertising. Donors through linuxfund are listed; that's sponsorship, i.e. advertising. And there are ads on the github and sourceforge pages (only, the money goes elsewhere) and so on. ... to use some other EDA software? Sorry, but this road is slippery. That's an unfair criticism. Google ads allow keyword control specifically to avoid showing ads for the competition. Even if that were not the case, the gEDA project could instead rent small text ads directly to some gEDA-friendly advertisers, so that it could have full control over the content. -Windell ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Funding for server
Popup ads and ads intermixed with gEDA content would be distracting but I don't believe that is what is being suggested. A sidebar of text ads does not seem bad. Occasionally useful and easy to ignore. (* jcl *) -- You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools. twitter: http://twitter.com/jluciani blog:http://www.luciani.org ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
