Re: "Donations"

[Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...>]

romfis,

You do recognize that there's not a single respectable organization on 
that "pixel-ad" website page?  It's some guy/gal/groups clever idea to 
sucker people into sending them a few bucks before "time/space runs 
out".  That said, your basic idea is good although there is already a 
donation system in place through SourceForge.  That system, however, 
does have it's limitations and downsides; clearly something better 
could be put into place.

If people are really serious about donations, I would suggest the 
forming of an organization that could be the caretaker of BZFlag 
community interests similar to the Blender Foundation, Debian's 
Software in the Public Interest non-profit, Freenode's 501c3 
Peer-Directed Projects Center, and other similar organizations focused 
around open source.

There would still be several difficulties including the opinions that 
open source projects should not be attached to for-profit ventures 
(there are some that hold that opinion), the delegation of any funds 
accumulated (which may be wishful or premature), and the mere setting 
up of the entity including the organizational structure.

Cheers!
Sean


On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Roman FIscher wrote:

> Dear BZFlag.org,
>
> My idea is to do a campaign for donations. The money should be used to 
> place a BZFlag.org-Banner on a Website, for example a Pixel-Website 
> called "http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/" This Website has more 
> than 100,000 Visitors each day and will be online at least till August 
> 2010.
>
> BZFlag is a great game and the purpose of the campaign is to make 
> BZFlag more known and to grow up the BZFlag Community.
>
> Because of the reliability the money of the donations should not be 
> received by me but someone of BZFlag.org
>
> So, this is the idea and i'd like to know how bzflag.org thinks about 
> it.
>
> With kind regards
>
> romfis
> www.bzflag.at