Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-16 Thread Carlo Strata
Hi Everyone, in any case (!) none has answered to my initial question and moreover has to be avoided changing the thread object and throw away one person's suggest or a simply discuss. So that now I have to renew my question with another all new post!!! Thank you! [OT] I have donate to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Carlo, Le jeudi 16 mai 2013 à 09:09 +0200, Carlo Strata a écrit : Hi Everyone, in any case (!) none has answered to my initial question and moreover has to be avoided changing the thread object and throw away one person's suggest or a simply discuss. So that now I have to renew my

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-16 Thread Carlo Strata
Hi Charles, thank you very much but with approved new feature I meant next releases features that are not yet implemented but wanted features, wanted by Community and/or TDF. I have found something similar here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA in the Enhancement requests

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Carlo, Le jeudi 16 mai 2013 à 14:07 +0200, Carlo Strata a écrit : Hi Charles, thank you very much but with approved new feature I meant next releases features that are not yet implemented but wanted features, wanted by Community and/or TDF. I have found something similar here:

[tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-15 Thread Guillermo Molleda Jimena
Traducción de texto o de páginas web I think it would be good to allow donations to certain feature of the program. If there is a particular functionality, the team could estimate cost as a budget with a code attached. If the donations do you put the code, once you reach the budget target the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-15 Thread Joel Madero
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Spending money, via donations, geared to one feature and not the whole package can be a VERY bad marketing issue. I never liked it. If you donate money to one feature and it does not get added, or

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-15 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 05/15/2013 02:03 PM, Joel Madero wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Spending money, via donations, geared to one feature and not the whole package can be a VERY bad marketing issue. I never liked it. If you donate money to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-15 Thread Joel Madero
Any payments and/or donations must be accounted for and if the person paying has any intent it to go to xyz, then by regulations we may need to account for that payment/donation and where it went to. That is the real problem with targeted donations and payments. There will be a mess in

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-15 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-05-16 07:45, Joel Madero wrote: Any payments and/or donations must be accounted for and if the person paying has any intent it to go to xyz, then by regulations we may need to account for that payment/donation and where it went to. That is the real problem with targeted donations

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

2013-05-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/15/2013 03:45 PM, Joel Madero wrote: Any payments and/or donations must be accounted for and if the person paying has any intent it to go to xyz, then by regulations we may need to account for that payment/donation and where it went to. That is the real problem with targeted donations

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Harold, Harold Fuchs wrote on 2010-10-12 10.28: I just noticed that the TDF Donations web page at http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ gives bank account details for something called Openoffice.org Deutschland e.V. Does this mean the money goes to Oracle? no. Team

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-14 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:32 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Sophie Gautier wrote (13-10-10 22:27) I remember Jean request, but not yours sorry. Again, I've tried to get these information displayed with no success. It did help. Finally we started to add some data to the council wiki. See

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:27 +0200, elcico2001 wrote: Maybe it's a little early but... I would suggest, as I already said to Italo Vignoli, a page on the website to show a TDF annual financial report, like, for example, wikimedia: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Finance_report I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Drew Jensen
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:31 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:27 +0200, elcico2001 wrote: Maybe it's a little early but... I would suggest, as I already said to Italo Vignoli, a page on the website to show a TDF annual financial report, like, for example,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 13 October 2010 14:54, Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:31 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:27 +0200, elcico2001 wrote: Maybe it's a little early but... I would suggest, as I already said to Italo Vignoli, a page on the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi, On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:27 +0200, elcico2001 wrote: Maybe it's a little early but... I would suggest, as I already said to Italo Vignoli, a page on the website to show a TDF annual financial report, like, for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jean, Jean Hollis Weber wrote (13-10-10 14:31) I think transparency is a good way to show TDF is working well... and, in my opinion, it also invites people to donate more money. I have been asking for this from the OpenOffice.org community council for many years, with no results. I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Bernd Glueckert
I have been asking for this from the OpenOffice.org community council for many years, with no results. I don't like to give money if I don't know where it's going. I've made the same experience. No answer. So I learn, that informations in this open project are not so open like it can be.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi, On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Bernd Glueckert bernd.glueck...@ot-soft.de wrote: I have been asking for this from the OpenOffice.org community council for many years, with no results. I don't like to give money if I don't know where it's going. I've made the same experience. No

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Sophie Gautier wrote (13-10-10 22:27) I remember Jean request, but not yours sorry. Again, I've tried to get these information displayed with no success. It did help. Finally we started to add some data to the council wiki. See