Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!
Paul Lesniewski <[email protected]>
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> I'm going to drop back into lurk-mode in a sec... :-) No worries. The more ideas the better! >> There are some corporate bodies who use SquirrelMail to make money >> for themselves. I know of at least two (and I'm sure there're more) >> ISPs who use SquirrelMail as the webmail client for their >> customers. It's perhaps not unreasonable for those corporate bodies >> to pay for the privilege. > > Please let's not go there. > > Open Source is Open Source is free. Don't compromise. Right. But the point we can take from this suggestion is to do what we can to encourage corporate users of OSS to give back more than they do (don't). Ideas in that vein are always welcome. > By all means *ask* the ISPs for a contribution but make it voluntary. Right. > How about asking developers to take on paid customisation work and > donate half of the proceeds to the project? This may get *them* more > work and raise money in the process...? Once in a while we get a one-off customization gig, but they aren't very steady. The real challenge here is making it obvious that this is an option and that it's a good way to support the project. I tried to allude to that in my announcement as well. The download page is probably a good place to start... -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: [email protected] List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel