From: Sam J. <sa...@sa...> - 2002-01-05 06:05:09
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Perhaps this is a silly question, but does SquirrelMail exist? ie is there a legal entity 'SquirrelMail' which can accept the money? If there is then I do like the support idea... 'priority' email support from the developers for example and if we're really organised maybe scheduled telephone/remote access support/custom development? Most of our corporate users would happily part with a few hundred $$$ per year, and it may even draw us some users who've been turned away by our being free. Introduces liability though. Kind of like the MySQL model I guess (although they started as a company with a strange, mostly-open-but-not-quite license. - samj On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:38:46PM -0600, David P. Discher wrote: > > >> How do we raise $400? Any ideas? > > > > There are what - 47 developers listed on Sourceforge? > > If we could convince them to offer $10 each. Alternatively, we could put > > I didn't read the advertising link/offer, but, being a SM developer, I will > not be willing to give money. I offer my time and talents (for what its > worth). > > BUT, I know people that would what to give money, but typically want > something in return, like support. This is something that I bounced off of > Paul about a month or so ago. Service providers could pay for some level > of support from the developers (or maybe a special set of "support" devs). > So when someone has a bug or problem ... the "support devs" would solve it, > possibly by phone. > > ANOTHER option, create a "Corporate Wish list" on the squirrelmail site > (does this violate sf.net rules ? ). This would allow a company that feels > the need to "give" back to do something for the SquirrelMail project. > First one could be > 1) SquirrelMail Publicity > $400 to X corp for Z,xxxx page view of a banner ad. > > 2) A Tree > 3) acorn > 4) What else does a squirrel need? > > > Finally - T-SHIRTS ! Create t-shirts and sell them ... make money and > advertise ! > > THE BEST WAY - in my honest opinion - is to just make SquirrelMail the best > damn web mail application out there. AND the users will come. > > So instead of considering raising money and advertising, I think a better > use of our time is raising the version number (not money) by working on > ZooKeeper and the SquirrelMail 1.3/2.0 Re-write ! > > > -- ****************************************************************** -- > | David P. Discher * (314) 518-3795 * <dp...@dp...> | > | <http://dpd.dpdtech.com/> * AOL/MSN: "DavidDPD" * ICQ:4222899 | > -- ****************************************************************** -- > > > -- > squirrelmail-devel mailing list > List Address: squ...@li... > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel > http://squirrelmail.org/cvs |