On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 12:00:42 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 11:51:04 UTC, Martin
Tschierschke wrote:
[...]
And last but not least place a small donate button on every
page!
Not sure whether that's a good idea, it might look a bit needy.
We already have a donate button on the front page since a few
weeks though.
Yes, the button at the bottom is good, but it took me quite a
while before I scrolled down...
I think it is not wrong to ask for money, if you make clear what
it will be used for.
So only "please donate" is not good.
But if you say, D is an free language not backed up by one big
corporate, you may help to keep it evolve and free for ever...
The next ...$ will be used to ... supporting ... additional
students to optimize ... and to run our server infrastructure, to
...
With 500 people participating in the survey there should be
the chance to boost up the impact of D with more manpower and
money.
Yeah, the idea is that 5$ a month isn't much (~ one coffee in
most countries), but if 500 people donate one coffee a month,
you get the entire coffee machine with a warp engine :)
I made the same calculation :-)
