Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:41:18 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>, "John S.Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <XFMail.980303104118.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980303092719.58779@follo.net>
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On 03-Mar-98 Eivind Eklund wrote: ... > Idea: Would it be politically possible to include a 'dontation' field > in the registration, where people could key in their credit card > number, expiry date and the amount they want to donate to further > FreeBSD development? It simply makes too much sense... Therfore, I'll extend the idea, borrowing from other projects; Offer membership. 1 year membership is $10.00, two years for only $18,50. A lifetime membership for a nice, round $1,000.00. People can commit to lifetime membership by sending $25.00/month for 40 months. Any registered membe can vote on certain issues. A vote costs $5.00 (make more money this way :-) Aside from voting, members are entitled to bitching about the stability of current for free. All others must donate a non-refundable $3.00/complaint. Lifetime members can cross post their complaint to as many mailing lists as they want. To keep the project socialistically correct, we reject any and all corportate donations. Or, we may say that corporate membership costs 35 times more than an individual membership and carries 1/3 the voting rights. > It should in that case include some suggestions that would tempt > people to donate even if they can't donate a large amount e.g, "No > amount to small, no amount to large. Certain you can't spare $10 in > favour of faster SMP-developments?" Also, anyone donating to the project gets a signed picture of their favorite core member. > > If the estimated number of users is correct, and each donated $10, > there'd be a cool $5M to improve FreeBSD. I think Steve would like this, but do not expect more than 2-6% of the users to respond. > Eivind, who can't easily come up with the required $1M himself at the > moment. Seriously folks, this is a good idea. I volunteer to assist Eivind in setting it up. I can provide the merchant account for Vias/MC, and the Internet presence. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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