Would you donate?

[blinking8s]

Out of curiosity, how many people would be willing to donate to Pixelpost?

Giving away things isn't free...we've covered our minor costs well, but we're looking into expanding things a little bit to provide more organized development/bug tracking and give better support by providing better documentation.

So yeah, I know I donate about $90 a year to Pixelpost...and pixelpunk, the original creator of Pixelpost, still covers a few of the costs himself even though he is not around anymore, just for the sake of love.

Then eleven2.com (http://www.eleven2.com) picks up our hosting bill which is awesome. Every bit helps...

We have a large user base, but I'm just throwing the question out in the open...out of curiosity. A lot of people have contacted me and asked about donations, but at the time we really just didn't need to have any sort of funding.

Now, we're growing and we need to reorganize and fix some stuff. With the warm weather approaching I figure it's a great time as more people are going to be out shooting and need Pixelpost more than ever!


PayPal donations are accepted though Pledgie:
http://www.pledgie.com/campaign/show/95

[dotcompals]

Surely I'd like to donate for such a useful one as PixelPost

[Rodney-E2]

I talked to Will about this before but kinda forgot about things, we would be willing to donate a Month worth of time from one of designers to help in making some marketing plans and site design for pixlepost. If you think our current site kinda sucks, its fine, we realize its out of date, which is why we have been working very very hard behind the scenes on a new kick ass site, which I think you will see here in a few weeks, probably 4 to 6 weeks that we know how to design and are willing to offer this as a community driven project or strictly working with Will or the PP team as a whole.

I am also willing to kick in some cash if you let us know how it will be spent etc.

[pennyjack]

I've asked in that past where to send a donation, go for it! I have used pixelpost for well over a year now and the software and support have been nothing short of fantastic. There are so many people who have helped me (web neophite :-) and others. I can't write code and I don't own a hosting service so it would be nice to contribute in a way that will help maintain pixelpost and pixelpost.org. Great product, great support...where do I pay :cool:

[austriaka]

I would not donate money because I decided for Pixelpost as a free application.
I wrote some addons and try to help in the forum, the time I spend for that is my part of donation and I really like to do that.
If there is anything I can help you with, IE page design, template design, logos, scripting, testing, writing Wiki articles, translating english into german or whatever, feel free to ask.
But no money, sorry.
This is my humble opinion :-)

KArin

[blinking8s]

We're looking into a bug tracker application which is about to go live, it's called lighthouse (http://www.lighthouseapp.com)

my main goal over the next 2 months is to improve the documentation, and take a little strain off the forum. Our wiki is good, but we fight spam and various other things, so I also thought about moving to a hosted solution called stikipad (http://www.stikipad.com), which you can mask right back into your personal site, it's just using their services and system...basically a spam-free and secure solution.

vbulletin costs money each year too, around $30, we might add on a template to get a redesign started, and lastly I was thinking a license of mint would be really good, we don't really pay attention much to our stats here.

Documentation can make or break an OS application, if it wasn't for the great support of this forum then pixelpost would be a great deal less popular.

Rodney - I'll be sure to talk to you more about that soon

austriaka - the investment of your time is the best of all!

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http://www.pledgie.com/campaign/show/95 is the system for donations I setup. At the moment, I plugged in a rough goal of $400 just to see how things work.

[trebor31]

Why don't you just have an option to donate?
The fact that people have in the past asked how they can donate shows that there are generous users out there who want to give something back.

But keep it totally voluntary - with no "bonus" features etc for those that do donate. That way you dont lose the ethos of PP in it being a free, community based app, but those who want to say thank you have the chance to do so.

I also think KArin has a great point - there are those whose time, advice, expertise and help as part of a community are a bigger and better "donation" than $10. And keeping it a level playing field regardless of donation means that those people who give in non-financial ways dont miss out.

I personally, would be willing to donate $ as a thank-you gesture for the time and effort put into something I find very helpful and useful and get a lot of use from.

I think donation is absoluely fine, (and I really can't see why anyone would object to having the option!), just dont make it a paid for app.

All the best, and continued thanks for everything the team put into PP.

[austriaka]

We're looking into a bug tracker application which is about to go live, it's called lighthouse (http://www.lighthouseapp.com)
Have a look at this one:
http://trac.edgewall.org/
It includes a wiki already

KArin

[blinking8s]

The track system is well known, but I'm pushing us towards a dumbed down system, something that is as easy to manage as it is to use.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

[dakwegmo]

It seems like such a silly thing to even ask the question. I generally prefer to just do things rather than talking about an idea until I'm bored with it before it's even occurred. It would take 20 minutes to setup a PayPal account and stick a donate button somewhere on the site. If people have been asking for a way to donate cash to the project, when they see the donate option they're going to fork over some cash. Even if you only get a couple of people donating a few dollars, if nothing else that would compensate you for the time it took to setup the donation form. If on the other hand, a lot of people donate even a little bit of money, it would go to greatly offsetting some of the costs of managing the project.

I would suggest adding a "Donate to PixelPost" button inside the admin panel of the next release of PP. That way even the people who use it the most will get the idea in their head to contribute a couple dollars to the project.

[blinking8s]

Yeah, we just never really had a use for donations before, but we're getting a lot bigger now and we need to shape up in a few areas.

It's in the plans though, a few posts above I mentioned this link

http://www.pledgie.com/campaign/show/95

it uses paypal and records donations and goals, pretty coolr eally, and we're working on a actual website update at the moment and it's been included into it.

[theMezz]

Out of curiosity, how many people would be willing to donate to Pixelpost?



I would donate

[Dennis]

shuldiner, look at our page. http://www.pledgie.com/campaign/show/95

[GeoS]

It looks like SPAM. If someone think the same then please ban him and del his post.

[witty]

Hi,

I would gladly donate... especially if I could do so with PayPal.


-Witty

[jaywilliams]

I would gladly donate... especially if I could do so with PayPal.

PayPal donations are accepted.

Just click the link below:

http://www.pledgie.com/campaign/show/95
(Pledgie uses PayPal)

[AainaA]

I'd likely donate to see the community grow as well as the growth of PP, but could it be with any other than paypal?

[witty]

Hi,

Pledgie uses PayPal

Oh, cool. I didn't know that. And that's probably the reason I hadn't donated anything until now. I like PayPal and don't have any interest in signing up for other "payment" services. But now that I know, Pledgie works for me.

I just made a donation... so thanks again!


-Witty

[johncpiercy]

I will donate ,, Paypal works good for me

How much is everyone kickin in

I havent been around much , but im not a code writer or a web monkey
The guys that can code this site in my opinion are brilliant .

A lot of people need a pat on the back , here .... well done Team PP

Heck I'll donate a few extra $$ if some one upgrades me to 1.6
( I dont want to screw it up)

jp in canada

update
Im in for some canuck bucks ,, thanks guys

[Dkozikowski]

There is no set amount. You may donate whatever you wish. Every contribution is appreciated.

As for upgrading to 1.6, it's really a breeze but i'll be glad to help in my free time, free of charge. Send me a message via private message.

[jyrik]

I think some European PP users would like to donate by using the EU bank transfer (or whatever it is called officially). It's a system that allows transfers between European accounts without extra costs. The point is that it's possible to make transfers to another EU country in a very similar way the domestic transfers are made. For example, it would be so easy for me to copy&paste the donation account number while paying my regular bills on my computer. And the transfer itself wouldn't cost me a thing, I'd give just the amount I'm donating.

So it requires an European bank account with IBAN code (most accounts have this automatically, I think). The transfers have to be euros-to-euros in order to minimize the transfer costs (for example using British pounds could cause some transfer costs).

Just an idea...

[sneuweger]

i donated - paypal is just fine.
i want to give a big thank you to all the folks involved in the pixelpost-project!
Keep up the good work!

greetz
Stefan
http://www.addicted2pixels.de

[blinking8s]

a huge thanks to everyone, it's really going to help us move forward with pixelpost and make it better for you.

[Rodney-E2]

i think we donated a bit too

[blinking8s]

i think we donated a bit too

;)

[johncpiercy]

I donated some $$ .. thanks to all at the Pixel Project .
checkout www.fotoshift.com

[Dennis]

Thanks for the donation!

[johncpiercy]

Glad the $$ can help
Im learning as I go , and its really great to have quick responses to the simple questions , that Im prolly gonna post .

Having a rock solid photoblog with PP means I can concentrate on taking pictures .

Im having a blast , learning

jp

[zora]

I don't have any money to donate right now, but I'll definitively do it soon. In the meantime, I'll post the pledgie page on my blog to make some noise. I do recognize the team's efforts to make this great application. I can't wait to see what's next!

Let's keep pixelpost alive!

[blinking8s]

Thanks zora....that's awesome.

[zora]

The promised post is up. It's in spanish so I thought maybe someone with skills could translate it to english in case other photographers want to do the same thing.

Here it is: Let's help Pixelpost (http://javierese.com/2007/08/10/ayudemos-a-pixelpost/)

I tried to put as many information as possible. I hope it helps.

Greetings to everybody!

[Gromitch]

Thanks for all of team Pixelpost - you are doing a great job. I think my little donation will help you :)

[blinking8s]

We'd just like to give our thanks to all those who have donated. Recently there have been quite a few donations, so I'm glad everyone is still supporting Pixelpost.

[Crossie]

Pixelpost is truly worth to receive a donation. I have tested a lot of webpresentation software and I have to admit that PP is top notch. Stability, extensibility, updates, security, and of course the community, I have no reason to complain. Keep up the great work!

Uwe

[Carina]

will go to paypal now....

thanks to pixelpost.