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RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? [message #6072]

Wed, 01 August 2007 14:28

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: codeslave.ca.ibm.com

I recently started a discussion in this bug [1] about the idea of
putting a Paypal button on the Eclipse site to provide an option for
people to donate funds or subscribe to pay-per-use services (like
dedicated bandwidth / mirrors).

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=197425#c5

A lot of corporate-sponsored OSS projects provide ways to allow J.
Random User to help the project out financially. Y'know, obscure,
unheard of little sites like Sourceforge, Apache, Mozilla, KDE, and
ubuntu, to name but five. ;-)

I'm curious what the committer reps think of this idea, and what ways
Eclipse could make more money in order to benefit the community more?
Selling DVDs? Schwag? Subscriptions? Tax-deductable donations?

Would per-project contributions (like on Sourceforge) be a good idea (I
think so)? Or should funds be funnelled directly to the Foundation for
things like bandwidth, hardware, infrastructure (more VoIP servers,
perhaps?), and more staff (webmasters, IP/legal reviewers) ? Or both?

There, I've given you a topic - now I'm getting a little verklempt. Talk
amongst yourselves [2]. ;-)

[2] http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91ncoffeetalk.phtml

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		RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Wed, 01 August 2007 14:28
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Wed, 01 August 2007 15:22
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Wed, 01 August 2007 15:39
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Thu, 02 August 2007 15:14
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Darin Swanson on Thu, 02 August 2007 17:29
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Bjorn Freeman-Benson on Fri, 03 August 2007 13:00
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Mike Milinkovich on Wed, 15 August 2007 16:18
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Mike Milinkovich on Wed, 15 August 2007 16:22
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Bjorn Freeman-Benson on Fri, 17 August 2007 02:02
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Mike Milinkovich on Wed, 15 August 2007 16:22
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Bjorn Freeman-Benson on Fri, 17 August 2007 02:02
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Mike Milinkovich on Wed, 15 August 2007 16:18
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Darin Swanson on Thu, 02 August 2007 17:29
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Bjorn Freeman-Benson on Fri, 03 August 2007 13:00
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Ed Merks on Thu, 02 August 2007 15:14
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Nick Boldt on Wed, 01 August 2007 15:39
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: David Williams on Mon, 06 August 2007 23:28
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Tue, 07 August 2007 07:37
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Fri, 17 August 2007 13:45
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Pascal Rapicault on Fri, 17 August 2007 22:33
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Sat, 18 August 2007 08:51
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Ed Merks on Sat, 18 August 2007 08:51
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: David Williams on Wed, 22 August 2007 03:07
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Wed, 22 August 2007 06:21
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Ed Merks on Wed, 22 August 2007 06:21
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Pascal Rapicault on Fri, 17 August 2007 22:33
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: David Williams on Wed, 22 August 2007 03:07
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Scott Lewis on Fri, 17 August 2007 13:45
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Ed Merks on Tue, 07 August 2007 07:37
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Tue, 28 August 2007 10:17
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Tue, 28 August 2007 11:50
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Tue, 28 August 2007 13:34
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Wed, 29 August 2007 08:59
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Wed, 29 August 2007 09:30
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Pascal Rapicault on Fri, 31 August 2007 16:26
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Fri, 31 August 2007 16:57
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Ed Merks on Fri, 31 August 2007 16:57
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Pascal Rapicault on Fri, 31 August 2007 16:26
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Eclipse User on Wed, 29 August 2007 10:32
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Ed Merks on Wed, 29 August 2007 09:30
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Chris Aniszczyk on Wed, 29 August 2007 10:32
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Donald Smith on Wed, 29 August 2007 08:59
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Ed Merks on Tue, 28 August 2007 13:34
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Chris Aniszczyk on Tue, 28 August 2007 11:50
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Konstantin Komissarchik on Wed, 01 August 2007 15:22
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: David Williams on Mon, 06 August 2007 23:28
		Re: RFC: Eclipse does Paypal? By: Donald Smith on Tue, 28 August 2007 10:17

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