Financial Status for 2004
to Haiku-os.org admin,
any chance of ads similar to HN.org ( 1 per page at either top or bottom ) ?
what about linking the http://www.guidestar.org/networkforgood/controller/searchResults.gs?action_gsReport=1&npoId=100293460
website on the http://haiku-os.org/contribute.php?mode=donate page ?
To All:
in less than 6 months, $763.92 was credited to Haiku through donations.
for the record,
2004-07-12, Haiku announced 501(c)3 status.
2004-08-30, Haiku has been able to accept donations through the website.
this amount does not reflect some donations that were deposited after 2004.
who wants the donations to break $2,000 for the year 2005?
even if you save $1usd a month (or less than a nickel a day) for the entire year to contribute sometime in Dec. 2005, the cummulative effect will help the cause :idea:
10 people who do that = about $100 after paypal's cut.
BeDrivers.com was able to raise ~$100USD for an Echo Gina 3G card for driver development in slightly over a month. http://www.bedrivers.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=141
http://forums.begroovy.com//index.php?topic=4907
shows where we can easily trade|sell|buy hardware with each other.
For mozilla, a single person is willing to pay $200 USD for real print support ( as this is a single person, i'll let them or someone else link to it )
yT even contacted the BeZilla team to find out how much is needed for the possibility for real printing from moz|ffox.
Several people, including myself are donating hardware to a BeZilla developer this spring, which will help with SMP and overall development.
Other people in the community have donated hardware to driver developers.
http://forums.begroovy.com//index.php?topic=4907.msg34038#msg34038 is a place where we can easily organize trading|selling|buying hardware from each other.
I'm sure that i've failed to mention other personal donations and I take that as a sign of community commitment to the BeOS (and related) platform.
so, what do you say?
... better yet, what do you? 8)
[edit: minor corrections from improper copy/paste and url tags]
Comments
Financial Status for 2004
I think the update on what's been donated so far is a very good thing. But how about making the donation button more of an eye catcher instead of the puny little link?
Like this:
With frequently updated numbers of what's been donated so far it would motivate more people to make an own contribution, IMHO.
But 2005 will hopefully be a year with more "buzzworthy" events than 2004, which will also have an effect on donations.
Financial Status for 2004
I could imagine that many potential donators (me among them) are reluctant to contribute until they have a clearer idea how exactly it will be spent. And that's in spite of me completely trusting Mr. Phipps and the rest of the Haiku admin team, don't get me wrong!
An explicit list where the money is planned to go could motivate people, for then they may say e.g. "Ah, my money goes to code bounties in the network and app_erver kit. Oh, and see all those nice cvs/subversion commits. I'm part of that!"
Roughly, I imagine a list like this:
up to $300: costs for the website
up to $1500: costs for the next WalterCon(tm)
up to $2500: code bounty for X (-> link to a specific job decription)
up to $3500: another code bounty for Y (-> link to a specific job decription)
up to $4500: another code bounty for Z (-> link to a specific job decription)
up to $10.000: pay a (part time) developer to work in a specific area
etc.
I understand that once you reach code bounty territory there's quite some more work involved for the admin/team leaders: carving out specific tasks, reviewing code, creating transparent rules when a task is truely completed and to be payed. What happens when a dev has worked hard but has to quit unfinished? Split the bounty? These questions and probably many much more tricky ones will emerge... But, well, TANSTAAFL.
I at least would really appreciate at least some steps in this direction.[/i]
Financial Status for 2004
LoL, I'm all for that one =)
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Sure. :) And the traffic costs alone will rise considerably once a first alpha version is out.
Anyway, the above list is a mere example. Neither the numbers nor the jobs were meant to be discussed in this thread. Simply the concept of having a plan was suggested.
Didn't catch on though... :(