Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamen...@gmail.com>:
Em 05-08-2013 16:40, Michael M Slusarz escreveu:
The fundraiser page can be found here:
http://tilt.tc/Evs2
Just wanted to give a quick update to the list.
As of Thursday afternoon, we are now ~$500 short of funding this
feature. A giant thank you to the ten contributors so far.
I'm pleased to announce that SAPO (http://www.sapo.pt/), a long-time
supporter of both Horde and open-source software in general, has
provided $1,000 towards the goal. (Due to details that will interest
nobody, this funding appears to be coming from me. I wish it was as
easy as pledging money to yourselves :) )
So this means we are 80+% of the way to the goal. If you were on the
fence about contributing - I hope this will provide the necessary
incentive in order to allow this useful feature to become a part of IMP.
I think it needs to be constantly advertised in order to succeed.
I've been sharing it on twitter, facebook etc. and I ask all of you
to share as well, even if you are not willing to contribute with
money.
Agreed. Thanks to some of the other Horde dev's, we've advertised via
our social media streams. Considering we only need another $500, even
a small amount of advertisement will hopefully be all we need to fund
the rest.
I would also suggest it to be announced on the horde list, since I
believe there are some users who subscribe to that list and not to
this one.
Good idea, although apologies for the cross-post for those subscribed
to multiple lists.
ho...@lists.horde.org subscribers: you can look at
http://lists.horde.org/archives/imp/Week-of-Mon-20130805/055226.html
for further details regarding this fundraiser goal.
For those who can contribute, please, help. Maybe this is a great
opportunity to give something in retunr for using good quality
software for years without spending any money.
Well... the current campaign really supports me much more than the
Horde Project in general :) Granted - the intellectual property
produced as a result of this will be openly available to everyone (via
the GPL) so the benefits are community-wide.
But this platform does allow me an opportunity to remind everyone that
if there are features you would like to see in Horde, that a fantastic
way of supporting the project is to fund new features. Although I
can't speak for the other developers, *I* much prefer this approach
than the "tip-jar" approach. The latter rests on our laurels; the
former provides a way to make the software even better. See
http://www.horde.org/services for further information.
Thanks everyone,
michael
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