Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004
I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ... Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems. In fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us they wouldn't use it. We, as a business, have had something like 25 new clients sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ... All due respect but that is just bad mojo in general. We have had zero problems with paypal. We also don't use them as our primary payment. We use a real merchant account and checking account for that. However paypal is good for a lot of things. Namely you want to provide the most ways to get paid (perfect for donations). It has also greatly increased its security and viability sense that really big billion dollar company call E-bay bought it. We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to We use Echo, which also accepts electronic check but remember we are talking about donations here, not a for profit accepting credit cards. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.commandprompt.com Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator. Integrated Replication for PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004
Would this be at all useful? Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge? If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through paypal. Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-222-2783 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.commandprompt.com Editor-N-Chief - PostgreSQl.Org - http://www.postgresql.org
Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Would this be at all useful? Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge? If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through paypal. I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ... Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems. In fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us they wouldn't use it. We, as a business, have had something like 25 new clients sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ... We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004
Alternately, maybe it's time to try to get the fundraising operation into gear. Greg? What's our status for setup? My goal is to have everything done by January 31st. Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to enable it on the PostgreSQL project. We at the phpPgAdmin project don't really have any use for donations, but we could just forward them all through to the PostgreSQL project? Would this be at all useful? Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Alternately, maybe it's time to try to get the fundraising operation into gear. Greg? What's our status for setup? My goal is to have everything done by January 31st. Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to enable it on the PostgreSQL project. We at the phpPgAdmin project don't really have any use for donations, but we could just forward them all through to the PostgreSQL project? Would this be at all useful? Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to enable it on the PostgreSQL project. Uh ... there is no PostgreSQL project on SourceForge, AFAIK. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to enable it on the PostgreSQL project. Uh ... there is no PostgreSQL project on SourceForge, AFAIK. Uh, you might be surprised http://pgsql.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsql/ -- (format nil [EMAIL PROTECTED] cbbrowne ntlug.org) http://cbbrowne.com/info/sgml.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #43. I will maintain a healthy amount of skepticism when I capture the beautiful rebel and she claims she is attracted to my power and good looks and will gladly betray her companions if I just let her in on my plans. http://www.eviloverlord.com/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
