On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > As most of you know, I am soon to celebrate one year since I got laid off > from my less-than-lucrative but still gainful employment. Returning to > school has been fun, and I've shot a few gigs here and there, but the blow > to my income has been catastrophic. > > I could type for a while on this subject, but I'll skip that and just say > that the PDML account is pretty much toast. My K20 is going on ebay sometime > this weekend to get some more operating funds for a while, but I'm running > out of things to sell and still stay in the photo game. > > Understand how sad and awkward this is for me; I've considered my > underwriting the PDML my main contribution to the community, and a point of > pride. Those of you who have met me know that neither pride nor dignity play > a big part in my life, so you can imagine how important that particular > point is. > > I've considered a number of scenarios, from a community print sale to raise > funds, to just handing it over to someone who can afford to keep it going, > to joining the 21st century and going to a web-based thing, but that would > still have to take into consideration the bandwidth costs, which are the > bulk of the out-go. > > I love The List, though, and I want to remain somewhat relevant. So I'm > going to add, assuming I get permission from our hosting company, a paypal > donate button to the pdml.net home page. This way I can avoid a straight out > begging posture but still give you all the opportunity to take part in the > continued life of this, the premier Pentax-related source on the Net. > > If any of you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me or just > throw something out for everyone to discuss.
I can relate. My tax returns the past couple of years have been pretty horrifying. If there was an abyss and a spot for jumping off its edge, I'm halfway to the bottom and wondering where the parachute went to ... A call for donations is a sensible endeavor. The host of a few of my lists (SeePhoto, Picture-A-Week and euro-moto) continue to support the cost of operating the server gratis to the users, but all of us who admin lists put out an annual call for donations to help fund the effort. Even a couple of dollars from each subscriber will normally pay the running costs. We simply post a message and tell people to donate directly via PayPal.com to the host owner. I don't know how much comes in on the donation call. How much needs to be raised to pay the PDML hosting fees annually? -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
