Thread: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004
>>Alternately, maybe it's time to try to get the fundraising operation into >>gear. Greg? What's our status for setup? > > > My goal is to have everything done by January 31st. Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to enable it on the PostgreSQL project. We at the phpPgAdmin project don't really have any use for donations, but we could just forward them all through to the PostgreSQL project? Would this be at all useful? Chris
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > >>Alternately, maybe it's time to try to get the fundraising operation into > >>gear. Greg? What's our status for setup? > > > > > > My goal is to have everything done by January 31st. > > Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' > system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to > enable it on the PostgreSQL project. > > We at the phpPgAdmin project don't really have any use for donations, > but we could just forward them all through to the PostgreSQL project? > > Would this be at all useful? Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations'
> system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to
> enable it on the PostgreSQL project.
Uh ... there is no PostgreSQL project on SourceForge, AFAIK.
regards, tom lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) wrote: > Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes: >> Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' >> system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to >> enable it on the PostgreSQL project. > > Uh ... there is no PostgreSQL project on SourceForge, AFAIK. Uh, you might be surprised.... <http://pgsql.sourceforge.net/> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsql/> -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "ntlug.org") http://cbbrowne.com/info/sgml.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #43. "I will maintain a healthy amount of skepticism when I capture the beautiful rebel and she claims she is attracted to my power and good looks and will gladly betray her companions if I just let her in on my plans." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through paypal.Would this be at all useful?Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge?
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >> > >>Would this be at all useful? > >> > >> > > > >Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you > >lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge? > > > > > > > If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through > paypal. I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ... Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems. In fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us they wouldn't use it. We, as a business, have had something like 25 "new clients" sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ... We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Marc G. Fournier wrote: >On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > >>>>Would this be at all useful? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you >>>lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through >>paypal. >> >> > >I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ... >Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems. In >fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account >and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us >they wouldn't use it. We, as a business, have had something like 25 "new >clients" sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen >from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ... > >We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card >services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a >company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to >have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about >their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current >one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ... > > Agreed. You might also look at http://www.2checkout.com/ - I have heard they are OK, and their fees don't look outrageous. I also have a friend who runs a web payment service, who might be able to help. I can ask him if people are interested. cheers andrew
>I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ... >Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems. In >fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account >and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us >they wouldn't use it. We, as a business, have had something like 25 "new >clients" sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen >from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ... > > All due respect but that is just bad mojo in general. We have had zero problems with paypal. We also don't use them as our primary payment. We use a real merchant account and checking account for that. However paypal is good for a lot of things. Namely you want to provide the most ways to get paid (perfect for donations). It has also greatly increased its security and viability sense that really big billion dollar company call E-bay bought it. >We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card >services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a >company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to > > We use Echo, which also accepts electronic check but remember we are talking about donations here, not a for profit accepting credit cards. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake >have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about >their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current >one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ... > >---- >Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) >Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > > -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator. Integrated Replication for PostgreSQL