Christmas donations
I sent this yesterday, but since I did so in reply to a spam post I think it got filtered out, because I never saw it come through. Anyway, the spam made me think that this would be a good time for all to show their appreciation to Harold and others by making a Christmas donation! http://xfree86.cygwin.com/donations.html Cary
Re: Donations link on cygwin-xfree website is broken
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:00:20AM -0500, Drew S wrote: I think Andreas must've meant this page: http://cygwin.com/xfree/devel/ This has the problem in the body at line 199, where the link mentioned points to http:://xfree86.cygwin.com/donations.html instead of http://xfree86.cygwin.com/donations.html Since Harold won't be around for a while, I've fixed this problem. Thanks for tracking it down. cgf
Thanks for donations
To anyone who has made a donation: thanks! I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again since I finally have the room to do so. An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB with 20 GB free for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate, bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price increase. Anywho, thanks again for the donations. Harold
Re: Thanks for donations
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: To anyone who has made a donation: thanks! I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again since I finally have the room to do so. An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB with 20 GB free for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate, bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price increase. Anywho, thanks again for the donations. Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or to Alexander for their work ? Alan.
Re: Thanks for donations
Yeah, I keep asking (on this list) if anyone needs me to buy them anything or transfer money to their accounts, and I encourage them to setup their own donations account (which would get a link on the donations page). So far, no takers :( Harold Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: To anyone who has made a donation: thanks! I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again since I finally have the room to do so. An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB with 20 GB free for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate, bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price increase. Anywho, thanks again for the donations. Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or to Alexander for their work ? Alan.
Re: Thanks for donations
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:17:45PM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: To anyone who has made a donation: thanks! I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again since I finally have the room to do so. An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB with 20 GB free for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate, bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price increase. Anywho, thanks again for the donations. Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or to Alexander for their work ? Hasn't Harold suggested that people could contribute links for their own donations? I don't think it makes sense for someone to be attempting to dole out money. What would the criteria be? Better to let the users decide. cgf
Re: Thanks for donations
Right, that is the optimum solution. But if a developer says, hey, I need book [foo] for feature [bar], then I would surely make sure that it found its way to them :) Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:17:45PM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: To anyone who has made a donation: thanks! I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again since I finally have the room to do so. An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB with 20 GB free for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate, bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price increase. Anywho, thanks again for the donations. Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or to Alexander for their work ? Hasn't Harold suggested that people could contribute links for their own donations? I don't think it makes sense for someone to be attempting to dole out money. What would the criteria be? Better to let the users decide. cgf
Re: Thanks for donations
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:36:16 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:17:45PM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: To anyone who has made a donation: thanks! I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again since I finally have the room to do so. An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB with 20 GB free for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate, bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price increase. Anywho, thanks again for the donations. Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or to Alexander for their work ? Hasn't Harold suggested that people could contribute links for their own donations? I don't think it makes sense for someone to be attempting to dole out money. What would the criteria be? Better to let the users decide. I understand your point, but who in the user community would know who to donate too if there are multiple paypal accounts. Unless you read CHANGELOG's the user community wouldn't know who to donate to. Alan.
Re: Thanks for donations
I don't think it would be a huge problem. I would put a nice description of each developers contributions on the donations page. I am sure that people would be able to figure out whom is most deserving of their praise. Harold Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:36:16 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:17:45PM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: To anyone who has made a donation: thanks! I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again since I finally have the room to do so. An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB with 20 GB free for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate, bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price increase. Anywho, thanks again for the donations. Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or to Alexander for their work ? Hasn't Harold suggested that people could contribute links for their own donations? I don't think it makes sense for someone to be attempting to dole out money. What would the criteria be? Better to let the users decide. I understand your point, but who in the user community would know who to donate too if there are multiple paypal accounts. Unless you read CHANGELOG's the user community wouldn't know who to donate to. Alan.
RE: Thanks for donations
Hasn't Harold suggested that people could contribute links for their own donations? I don't think it makes sense for someone to be attempting to dole out money. What would the criteria be? Better to let the users decide. I understand your point, but who in the user community would know who to donate too if there are multiple paypal accounts. Unless you read CHANGELOG's the user community wouldn't know who to donate to. I think this too. Relating to this i've got a hint, that some people doesn't like paypal because of security problems and that some projects are using another donation system for example www.kagi.com. This should be only a note. Ralf
Donations
I have setup a Donations page on the Cygwin/XFree86 site. http://xfree86.cygwin.com/donations.html On the page is a link to contribute funds to Cygwin/XFree86 on the project-level (which I will collect and distribute to anyone needing a book or some equipment for development --- after they have become an established Cygwin/XFree86 developer). There is also a section for links to any individual contributor's web pages. Currently there is only my own link on this page: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/donations.htm The PayPal account that I have setup can accept credit card payments from anyone; additionally, PayPal members should be able to directly transfer funds into my PayPal account from their own account. By all means, do not feel obligated to make a donation. Also, realize that future Cygwin/XFree86 development does not depend upon the amount of donations received. Granted, it will be easier to do development when I know that my hardware upgrade costs are taken care of, but I will always be spending some amount of time tinkering with Cygwin/XFree86 regardless of the amount of donations. Think of the donations as either a way for you to give a token of your appreciation or as a way for you to influence the priority and amount of time put in to developing some feature that you would benefit from. Let the donations begin! ;) Harold P.S. One contributor has already given $25 and I thank him for that (he knows who he is).
