Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!
Paul Lesniewski <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jeff Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> On 6/9/09, Jan Hauke Rahm <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:19:22AM -0700, Paul Lesniewski 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. >>>>> >>>> Some others have since told me the same thing. I think it's a good >>>> idea, as, as you might expect, we had a small handful of people kindly >>>> respond to that announcement, but since then, we've not really seen >>>> any donations. The last thing I want to do is keep bugging people >>>> about it, so this idea is definitely a good one - it will have to take >>>> some figuring out how to set it up, though - not sure if it can be >>>> done with PayPal, or if we'd even want to do it that way. >>>> >>> Just my two cents...: although right now I don't have any money left to >>> donate I wouldn't even if I could. PayPal is just not where I want to >>> leave my name. A simple bank account to transfer money to would probably >>> attract more people. No registering, just pushing the money. >>> But that counts for me and I don't know if I'm representative... :) >>> >> >> Probably not entirely. :-) But many of us here would love to avoid >> PayPal. Problem is there aren't any alternatives that seem like >> they'd work. If any one of you knows of a good PayPal alternative, by >> all means, please speak up!! >> >> If you want to send money directly to us, then, well, contact us >> offlist and ask for our address where you can send an old-school >> check. :-) >> >> > Amazon Simple Pay has a lot of options, is cheaper than PayPal, and I'll > bet most people averse to PayPal probably already have an Amazon account. > > https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=paynow/pricing Jeff, thanks so much for pointing this out. I have added this option to our donations page thanks to you. http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev ----- 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