Re: [Gtranslator-devel] [Fwd: SF.NET project donation update.]

["Ross Golder" <ross golder org>]

Hi Fatih,

I can't see a problem with accepting donations, but how do you intend to
use the donations?

Regards,

--
Ross

> Hello all out there,
>
>  a small question for you: would anyone mind if we'd also join the
> project donation stuff from sf.net?
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	SF.NET project donation update.
> Date: 	Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:34:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: 	SourceForge.net Team <noreply sourceforge net>
> To: 	kabalak kabalak net
>
>
>
> Dear SourceForge.net Developer,
>
> My name is Patrick McGovern and I manage SourceForge.net.  You are
> receiving this email because you are an admin of one or more projects on
> SF.NET.
>
> I wanted to give you an update on the project donation program.   It's
> going well.  More and more projects are opting-in to receive donations
> from the Open Source Community.
>
> We have now added an icon (gear with a dollar sign) that is displayed
> next to any project that has turned 'on' donations.  (You can turn on
> donations by going to the admin section of your project)  An example of
> this icon at work can be seen here:
> http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week
> This icon alerts users of your software that you are activity looking
> for financial support.
>
> We now also list the most recent donors on the summary page.  A good
> example is this page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/
>
> Today I want to tell you about a new feature:  The ability to list your
> most recent donors on your project webspace, the part of SourceForge.net
> you directly control.   The SF.NET team has created both a RSS feed and
> a HTML feed that will assist you in displaying the most recent
> supporters of your project.
>
> The implementation is straight forward.  You can read about it here:
> https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1502
> &group_id=1#sampledonor
>
> or here: (shorter URL to cut down on word wrap issues)
> http://tinyurl.com/3glq4
>
> A demo of the new feature can be viewed here (this is for the project
> Egroupware):
> http://sourceforge.net/export/html_projdonors.php?group_id=78745&button=
> bottom&show_comments=1
>
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/2mmpv
>
> Approximately 2/3's of SourceForge.net's traffic is from project web
> pages, hence this new feature will put the most eyeballs in front of
> your message that you are looking for financial support.  It also brings
> to the attention, on your site, those donors who have already helped
> you.  As a donor, nothing feels better then getting some form of
> recognition, and this is a way to give your donors a pat-on-the-back for
> their support.
>
> I hope you find this new feature useful.   Thank you for being a part of
> SourceForge.net.
>
> If you have any questions regarding this, please don't hesitate to email
> me at pat sf net
>
> Thank you.
>
> Pat-
>
>
>
>
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