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
