Hi Neil, Yes, it's a good idea to setup a donate button. I already have a PayPal account (also I didn't used it for a long time), so this should be no problem.
Gerald > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Gunton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 7:58 PM > To: embperl@perl.apache.org > Subject: Re: Embperl and worker MPM > > Gerald Richter wrote: > > Geting Embperl with threads (and therefor the worker MPM) > is planned > > for one of the next releases. > > > > The problem is, that it is a lot of work, which needs to be > done in my > > free time, so I cannot exactly say when it will be finished. > > > > Some time ago Gary Shea [shea at gtsdesign dot com] try to collect > > some money on the Embperl list to to speed up this > implementation (in > > such a case my company would pay some of the implementation > cost, but > > my company is not big enought to pay all of it of it on it's own) > > How much do you need to do this? Setting a specific target > and then sending out a "fundraising appeal newsletter" might > help. Set up a PayPal account and make a special "donations" > web page on your site so that it's really easy to donate > (people do not need to be paypay members in order to use a > credit card). Yes, I know PayPal isn't the ideal solution, > but they do make it easy to give, which is the important > thing. Also, implement some kind of "progress bar" on the > site to keep track of how much you've raised in relation to > the target. > > I'n not just spouting here - I did this recently on my > crazyguyonabike website to raise funds for a new server. I > couldn't afford a new one, so I sent out a newsletter to the > user community to ask for $2000. The email went out in the > morning, and we had raised the target by the end of the day. > Then people kept on giving, and the final total was over > $5000 a few weeks later. I was quite surprised! > > I don't know how many people are on your mailing list, > Gerald, but I think there were about 600 or so that got the > email (hard to say with spam filters etc) and a 150 or so who > donated anywhere from $20 to $300. You might need more money > for this, I have no idea, but you're also probably dealing > with people who use Embperl for business. So you might get > larger donations if you play your cards right. > > People certainly should be grateful for all the effort you've > put into this project over the years, you might be surprised > at the response. But you do have to make it easy - do the > PayPal page, here's mine for example below. Also, have an > obvious link to it from the front page. When the fundraising > was active, I put the donation button in a big yellow box > with a progress bar. You have to update the progress > yourself, but that's a trivial project with a small database table. > > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/help/donate/ > > Key things, I think, are: > > 1. Make it clear what you're doing and why people should send > money 2. Make it really easy to give 3. Give people a visual > indication of progress toward the goal - they seem to love that > > I ran crazyguyonabike since 2000 and never asked for anything > in return. I thought asking for donations was distasteful > somehow, and I wanted to keep money out of it. However in > this case we needed a new server, so everybody would be > benefitting. If a similar drive helped you do more to make > Embperl even better, then that benefits everybody here, so I > think it's in perfectly good taste. Many open source projects > have a "donate" button. > > If you'd like any more help with this then let me know. > > -Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ** Virus checked by BB-5000 Mailfilter ** > !DSPAM:43495a67278611704814560! > ** Virus checked by BB-5000 Mailfilter ** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
