I have a few thoughs and questions about donating to Xiph that I hop you have a minute for. Here we go: == "Who donated what" list =As it seems we don't have a "Who donated what" list. I thought creating such a list could increase motivation to donate to some parties. What I currently have in mind would be to start listing donations from now on below the current content on [1], listing only the latest ~30 donations so the page doesn't get too slow too load and people have a reason to donate again :-) We could list what amount was donated or not? We could "sell" links on that page for extra cash or not? == Making needs public =I was wondering if it is a good idea to make our needs public if we have concrete numbers like other pages are doing. Like "out servers takes x dollars per month" or "new harddiscs x dollards" or .. == Input/output optimizations =Feel free to invite me meetings about input/output optimizations discussing questions like "should we buy x or y". I am "optimizer inside(tm)", feel free to make use of that ;-) == Programming deal =I am currently discussing a tiny deal about extending one of my Winamp plugins for a 10 USD donation to Xiph in return. If that works out I will have to check if he paid - how do we do this? Sebastian [1] http://xiph.org/donate/
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 02:36:43PM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote:> I am currently discussing a tiny deal about extending > one of my Winamp plugins for a 10 USD donation to Xiph > in return. If that works out I will have to check if > he paid - how do we do this?If the donation is through the usual paypal link, Monty or I can verify that the payment was made. -r
Sebastian Pipping wrote:> == "Who donated what" list => As it seems we don't have a "Who donated what" list. > I thought creating such a list could increase motivation > to donate to some parties. What I currently have in mind > would be to start listing donations from now on below > the current content on [1], listing only the latest ~30 > donations so the page doesn't get too slow too load > and people have a reason to donate again :-) > We could list what amount was donated or not? > We could "sell" links on that page for extra cash or not?Bad idea?> == Making needs public => I was wondering if it is a good idea to make our needs > public if we have concrete numbers like other pages > are doing. Like "out servers takes x dollars per month" > or "new harddiscs x dollards" or ..No needs, no opinions? Wouldn't stating specific needs strongly increase the chance of getting them satisfied? Come on! :-) Sebastian