People who donate should get a credit in the Freenet source as well as on the website. After all, we are supporting the internet of the future but we get little or nothing immediate in return. Recognition would be something immediate.
Shawn Yarbrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Donations have been going well, our Paypal balance is currently around $1,500 and we still have a month to-go before Matthew's 2 months is up - hopefully he will be willing to continue the relationship if he can. The problem is that donations are irregular, and it is difficult to have any certainty over our ongoing ability to keep someone employed. One way to address this is to encourage people to "subscribe" - Paypal supports automatic monthly payments. If enough people sign up for this, we can virtually guarantee a certain monthly income from donations, and it will be cumulative as more people sign up. We only need 250 people to sign up for $10/month for us to sustain Matthew, or whoever follows him, indefinitely (although I think soon we might need to consider upping the wages to $3,000 for two months). Many people have been prodding me about reinstating the mechanism we used to have which gave a running total of donations as we got them. I got rid of this after the move to TWiki, as it was all done using PHP and doing it in TWiki was a completely different proposition. Perhaps if we do this, we could put some effort into getting that kind of functionality (or something better) again. Thoughts? Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
