Do you know how much they skim off the top for their "service" fee?
--- Jay Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O.K., my bad! I went and looked and this looks like > a reputable site. I hope > the money does indeed go to the right places. > > --Jay Gardner > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:15 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Money for Projects > > Sorry for the knee-jerk reaction! I am all for > rewarding developers for > their hard work. I just don't want some organization > skimming off the top > when you can just as easily contact a developer or > organization directly and > donate that way. I guess I need to go find out about > the service before > passing judgment. > > --Jay Gardner > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dahnke, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:09 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Money for Projects > > > imo there's nothing wrong with what this person is > putting together. what's > the harm. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:57 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Money for Projects > > > Go away and don't come back!! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT: Money for Projects > > > Apologies in advance if this feels spammy. > > I have been working with a few folks on a grassroots > way for people to > donate money to various non-profits & projects such > as Apache, Hurd, > EFF, or even to a given developer. This donation > might be in response > to some helpful feedback given by that developer in > response to a > question; it might be because their name and URL > were in some software > they used. Affero takes a bit off the top for our > expenses , which we > think is reasonable given the costs involved in > credit card auth and the > like. The software used to deliver the service is > open source. > > Take a look at a the link I created below > > People can go to that URL and donate money, 35% of > which goes to the > Squid, 35% to XFree86 and 30% to FSF Gen Fund-GCC. > > We're very interested in any comments and feedback > on the > site/service. You can check it out at > http://www.affero.com. > BTW, we have been told that we should lower our > $15.00 minimum donation. > What do you think? > > Thanks > > Reed > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > How valuable is my contribution? Share your feedback > at Affero: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=creed&p=Projects > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Office: 415 371 9900 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.affero.com > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
