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

Paul Lesniewski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:55 PM, 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... :)

Thanks to Jeff, I was able to add another donation mechanism - Amazon.
 It's on our donations page:

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

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