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Re: Donations after new releases.

From: Alex Kirk (alexschnarff.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 22:53:10 CDT

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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