Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!

Paul Lesniewski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Daniel Watts <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> To donate to SquirrelMail, please visit our new donations and bounties
>> page here:
>>
>>   http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your generosity!
>>
>> For the SquirrelMail Team,
>>
>>    Paul Lesniewski
>
>
> Paul - why don't you set up a recurring payment system? See if you can't
> get a lot of people donating a small amount monthly - would probably end
> up more in the long term and would give you some predictable cash flow
> so you can actually look at hiring someone part/full time based on the
> cash coming in each month.

I've just added two ways for anyone to give money on a
recurring/monthly basis to our donations page.  Thanks for the idea.
So far, we're not to the point of having enough coming in to pay
anyone regularly, but we'd sure like to get there...

> Perhaps market it as a 'sponsors club' which gives members access to a
> sponsors-only support mailing list which has slightly priority. This
> would be great incentive for continued giving.

Recently I was considering this idea, but it raises questions of
whether or not the list would have public accessible archives,
read-only participation options, etc.  Managing yet one more mailing
list is also a bit of a burden on us.  Another approach could be to
use the normal lists but where contributors are asked to identify
themselves as such (there could be ways to automate the
identification, too) so that the team can make a point of prioritizing
their inquiries.

-- 
Paul Lesniewski
SquirrelMail Team
Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail!
http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php

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