[ODE] Let's Help Russ With Money

[Olivier Michel]

Russ,

Could you display interactively the total amount of money received and 
set a target minimum amount ?
You should also state which features are going to be developed if this 
minimal amount is reached.
I am sure this will motivate many people to donate and we (the ODE 
community) could also help you in marketing this funding campaign.
We might get slashdotted or appear in some other news sites, as it was 
the case for Blender. It's cool to fund open software that way, isn't it 
? That was just my 2¢ before my $100...

-Olivier

jnilson_99 at yahoo.com wrote:

>"Well, the basic donations are already setup"
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>if donating is what it's going to take then donate i
>will...after updating my old paypal account i just
>donated $20 to ode....after all russ deserves
>it.....go to:
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>ode.org/donate
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>john
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>p.s. no kidding i just donated 20 bucks...i hope this
>helps....
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>--- Aras Pranckevicius <nearaz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Then, the users could enter their credit card
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>>information and choose
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>>>either to give money right now (even if the
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>>minimal amount requested by
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>>>Russ is never reached) or to give money only
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>>when/if the minimal amount
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>>>of money is reached (promized money).
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>>Well, the basic donations are already setup, for
>>quite a time now. The
>>homepage of ODE has "please donate to the ODE
>>project"... Though I
>>have no idea how much already has been donated (I
>>don't expect that to
>>be very much).
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>>>This has worked very well for Blender, I guess we
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>>could give it a try
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>>>for ODE as well.
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>>AFAIK, Blender got the initial "buy the
>>sourcecode/rights back" sum
>>from the "community". Later it got some EU funding
>>(and probably still
>>gets it).
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>>-- 
>>Aras 'NeARAZ' Pranckevicius
>>http://nesnausk.org/nearaz |
>>http://nearaz.blogspot.com
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