What about a donation page for Xfce ?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Ahh, Glad it was the mail server, I had that strange feeling of "deja
vu" (Should I say "deja lu" ? ;-) )

I was feeling a lot older suddenly ;-)

> Damned university mail server! 
> 
> Sorry about the duplicate mail.
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:36:31 +0200
> Jasper Huijsmans <huysmans at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> > At 10:16 AM 7/18/02 +0200, you wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >I've been thinking of a donation page for Xfce. Note that this would
> > >*not* be for paying *me* or other developpers, but rather for the
> > >costs like site registration and various hardware needs.
> > 
> > Actually, someone _should_ hire you to work on xfce full time ;-)
> > 
> > >Xfce is free software and will remain so. Donations would not be
> > >requested, just maybe suggested.
> > >
> > >What do you think ?
> > >
> > >As a side note, GNOME and KDE wich have way more people and companies
> > >involved do that already. Xfce has no company backing it, just the
> > >motivations of a few developpers arround the world.
> > >
> > >Let me know your feeling, opinions. Just don't flame me too hard ;-)
> > >
> > >PS: Do you know how this can be acheived, I mean should we use
> > >paypal, or something else ? I've never done that before, so I'm
> > >wondering...
> > 
> > I don't know anything about this, but I also don't see anything wrong
> > with it. We just have to make sure we show our gratitude towards any
> > donors and we show where the money goes. Do you have anything in mind
> > to use donations for?
> > 
> > >Cheers,
> > >--
> > >Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>           
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Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>            http://www.xfce.org
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XFce is a lightweight  desktop  environment  for  various *NIX systems. 
Designed for productivity,  it loads  and  executes  applications fast,
while conserving  system resources. XFce is all free software, released
under GNU General Public License.    Available from http://www.xfce.org