This is interesting. Anyone willing to actually help financially support the community?
----- Original Message ----- From: "SourceForge.net Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:04 AM Subject: SF.NET Project Donation System > Hello, > > My name is Patrick McGovern and I manage SourceForge.net. This email > is being sent to all project admins on SourceForge.net. > > As you may have read in last week\'s SF.NET Sitewide update, we have > added a project donation system to the site. This system allows you > to generate incremental income to help cover the cost of your > development time and/or help you purchase new hardware. > > We have approximately 700,000 users visiting the site daily. Users who > depend on your software will likely want to give something back to you > and your team for all your contributions. > > The project donation system is very similar to the site donation system > we launched ten weeks ago to accept donations for SourceForge.net. You > can see the contributions here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php > > To accept donations on your project, all you need to do is have the > admins of your project to \'opt-in\'. That is, go to the donation section > of your project (admin area) and choose the option to accept donations. > Once every admin of your project has turned on this option, the feature > will become active and you will see a donation link on your summary > page. > > Users have the ability to leave comments of appreciation when they give > a donation, which is viewable to all your users. > > You can choose to accept all the money, or donate a percentage to an > organization such as the Open Source Initiative or Gnome Foundation. > > SourceForge.net has a 5% fee per donation (minimum of $1). Paypal fees > also apply. Paypal is the only form of payment we accept at this time, > but we will be adding additional types of payments in the future. > > If you have interest, you can start accepting donations today! Just > turn on the feature on your admin page. > > If you have any questions about this program, please don\'t hesitate to > contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you. Happy Holidays. > > Pat- > > Patrick McGovern > Director, SourceForge.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > . > >
