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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Donations
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:40:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83BC2A32-47DE-4097-AA36-F3F805884DD3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0e1fe620906050557r6a3455fei6eb022baec707820@mail.gmail.com>

This is in Dutch????  Oh my, I need to figure out how to change than :-(
No idea so far.....

- Carsten

On Jun 5, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Scot Becker wrote:

> Could that PayPal link perhaps (also) point to a page in English?   
> We lazy monolingual users from the "Verenigde Staten" and the  
> "Verenigd Koninkrijk" might find our countries names in the pull  
> down list somewhat more easily.  :-)
>
> sb
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> a while ago I was contacted by one of the members of this
> mailing list, asking me if there was a way to compensate
> me for the sustained effort I put into developing and
> maintaining Org-mode.  It was not the first inquiry I had in
> this direction, but this time the author was more persuasive.
> The way he put it was that Org-mode did create more value for
> him than he ever got out of Microsoft Office or any other
> similar and expensive program.  This whole story ended in a
> generous donation in exchange for a signed printed manual
> and a laminated reference card.
>
> At first this seemed like an odd idea, because I do
> develop Org-mode out of passion, craziness, addiction and
> for fun.  But it is true that over the past 6 years I have
> probably put thousands of hours into this project.
>
> Long story short:  There is now a PayPal donation button on
> the website.  Any money arriving there will be used to
> keep me in the same happy state that has enabled me to do this
> work for the last couple of years, and it will also be used
> for hardware that I might need, like the next laptop for my
> commute (my main source of coding time) or some mobile
> device to help creating a mobile arm for Org-mode.
>
> Make no mistake: Org-mode is "free", both as in "freedom" and
> as in "free of charge", and always will be.  But for those of
> you who feel that a donation would be a good way to contribute,
> this is now possible.
>
> Regards
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05  9:13 Donations Carsten Dominik
2009-06-05 12:57 ` Donations Scot Becker
2009-06-05 13:40   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-06-05 14:02 ` Donations Leo
2009-06-05 21:53 ` Donations Chris Randle

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