Support this project

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Wed Jul 4 17:50:43 UTC 2007


Hi Ken,

on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:53:11 +0200, you wrote:

> http://www.squeak.org/Foundation/SupportSqueak/
>
> Obviously this is not obvious enough.

I know that, and I'm using it. I even posted here, recently, that I used  
it.

And I want to support those projects which are of interest for me, not  
just all.

> Maybe it's time for banner or
> column ads (for internal purposes only) on Squeak.org?

One button per project, that was what I suggested. So people can have more  
reasons to effectively donate.

/Klaus

> Ken
>
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 13:15 +0200, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> Gentlefolks,
>>
>> I just returned from www.stellarium.org, they (like many other free open
>> source projects) have a "support this project" button for people who  
>> want
>> to donate money to the project.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest that the various Squeak projects have their own
>> "support this project" button. This perhaps makes it easier for  
>> interested
>> parties to donate some money. Many people (like me) don't want to buy a
>> piece of supermarket, but rather just some groceries for their mouse :)
>>
>> Donations to projects can be used for (for example) representing  
>> projects
>> at events, buying hardware for the developers, printing CDs or
>> documentation, and other related marketing activities which require  
>> money
>> in support of visibility.
>>
>> And of course regular transfers can be made from a project's funds in
>> support of the more general activities (community server, etc).
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> /Klaus
>>
>>
>>





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