Donations

[Chuck Mead]

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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Mattias Thuresson posted the following:

MT>Hi,
MT>for some reason www.xfce.org doesn't work tonight,
MT>I hope it's only temporary? This made me think of
MT>a discussion a few weeks ago about a donations page.
MT>There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, and somebody
MT>is footing the bill for the web server to host
MT>the site. As I remember, everybody agreed that donating
MT>money was a good idea and since I recently learned
MT>how to transfer money abroad (the Mandrake club)
MT>the thought doesn't scare me.

Thanx for the kind thoughts... I have been hosting the xfce.org site for
years (actually I registered the domain in the beginning as Olivier had
not done so and I felt like it deserved one!). This is actually the
first year I have not personally been able to pay the registration fees
(Olivier did that this time as the economy is so bad that my business
has really been in the dumper) but the hosting is still not a problem.

One thing that probably would help in terms of donations is if we could
get together enough cash to buy a new disk every year or so... I host
the jpilot.org and lunar-linux.org sites as well as xfce.org and
upgrading the disks/adding more space would be great! The hosting itself
is nothing and costs me so little it is not worth mentioning. Our
provider has been a very good friend to me and to XFce over the years
and we have traded out the hosting (I help him with heavy duty sys-admin
stuff when he gets in a jam).

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csm

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