OK, you have a donation. Hopefully first of many.
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Romain Beauxis <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After several requests, some internal discussions, and some recent
> needs, we finally decided to open a donation system for Savonet.
>
> We have opened a paypal account at:
> [email protected]
> Donations should be handled through sourceforce.net at this adress:
> https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=89802
> and we shall have a donation link on the main webpage soon.
>
> Please keep in mind David's claim at ON2, which is still our viewpoint
> to this day: Liquidsoap has ran seven years without any money input,
> so there's no risk that it'll stop because of a lack of funding.
>
> Then.. Why donate?? Well, this is a good question!
>
> The main reason why we finally decided to allow donations came with the
> latest
> research paper we wrote about liquidsoap. The paper was accepted for
> presentation at the SOFSEM 2011 conference:
> http://www.sofsem.cz/
> Unfortunately, while we thought we could get academic fundings to present
> it,
> this will not happen. Thus, we are unable to participate to the event ...
> unless you help us!
>
> More generally, we hope to use any money donated to the project to fund
> different events related to liquidsoap, most likely transportation,
> housing,
> participation costs related to conferences, developpers meetings,
> presentations, etc.
>
> We believe these social aspects are very important at this stage to
> move forward.
>
>
> Thanks all for your help, appreciation and feedbacks,
> All the best for the new year to come,
> Happy Holidays!
> Romain
>
>
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