Lots of people pledged some amount of money in the recent thread entitled "need your help to overhaul docs" (see http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7b...). This was great. I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the trigger on actually doing the work.
I've since set up a contribution page at http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
chipin.com uses PayPal to collect the money. If sending money via PayPal is not convenient for you or your organization for some reason, please contact me off-list and we can arrange for some other mechanism.
Although the goal was $5000.00 originally, I've put the target at $5500.00 to offset Paypal transfer fees. Assuming we reach the goal, Agendaless will keep about $300 of this money to cover those fees.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > Hi folks,
> Lots of people pledged some amount of money in the recent thread > entitled "need your help to overhaul docs" (see > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7b...). This was great. I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the trigger on actually doing the work.
> I've since set up a contribution page at > http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to > actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind > enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the > flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful > thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless > Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
> chipin.com uses PayPal to collect the money. If sending money via > PayPal is not convenient for you or your organization for some reason, > please contact me off-list and we can arrange for some other mechanism.
> Although the goal was $5000.00 originally, I've put the target at > $5500.00 to offset Paypal transfer fees. Assuming we reach the goal, > Agendaless will keep about $300 of this money to cover those fees.
> Thank you!
> - C
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> hm. payment didn't work for me (from germany). the form always > complained about missing information.
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: >> Hi folks,
>> Lots of people pledged some amount of money in the recent thread >> entitled "need your help to overhaul docs" (see >> http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7b...). This was great. I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the trigger on actually doing the work.
>> I've since set up a contribution page at >> http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to >> actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind >> enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the >> flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful >> thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless >> Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
>> chipin.com uses PayPal to collect the money. If sending money via >> PayPal is not convenient for you or your organization for some reason, >> please contact me off-list and we can arrange for some other mechanism.
>> Although the goal was $5000.00 originally, I've put the target at >> $5500.00 to offset Paypal transfer fees. Assuming we reach the goal, >> Agendaless will keep about $300 of this money to cover those fees.
>> Thank you!
>> - C
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On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:03 +0100, Hynek Schlawack wrote: > It worked fine for me – also from Germany. You have to set the pledge on the left side before logging in, I got that wrong on my first try.
> Cheers, > Hynek
If using the chipin site is an issue, and you still want to use PayPal, you can send the funds to "agendal...@paypal.com" using PayPal directly, for what it's worth. If this doesn't work for you for whatever reason, please contact me offlist and we can try to work it out.
> > hm. payment didn't work for me (from germany). the form always > > complained about missing information.
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > >> Hi folks,
> >> Lots of people pledged some amount of money in the recent thread > >> entitled "need your help to overhaul docs" (see > >> http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7b...). This was great. I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the trigger on actually doing the work.
> >> I've since set up a contribution page at > >> http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to > >> actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind > >> enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the > >> flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful > >> thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless > >> Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
> >> chipin.com uses PayPal to collect the money. If sending money via > >> PayPal is not convenient for you or your organization for some reason, > >> please contact me off-list and we can arrange for some other mechanism.
> >> Although the goal was $5000.00 originally, I've put the target at > >> $5500.00 to offset Paypal transfer fees. Assuming we reach the goal, > >> Agendaless will keep about $300 of this money to cover those fees.
> >> Thank you!
> >> - C
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:03 +0100, Hynek Schlawack wrote: >> It worked fine for me – also from Germany. You have to set the pledge on the left side before logging in, I got that wrong on my first try.
>> Cheers, >> Hynek
> If using the chipin site is an issue, and you still want to use PayPal, > you can send the funds to "agendal...@paypal.com" using PayPal directly, > for what it's worth. If this doesn't work for you for whatever reason, > please contact me offlist and we can try to work it out.
> - C
>> Am 16.02.2012 um 09:14 schrieb Robert Forkel:
>> > hm. payment didn't work for me (from germany). the form always >> > complained about missing information.
>> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: >> >> Hi folks,
>> >> Lots of people pledged some amount of money in the recent thread >> >> entitled "need your help to overhaul docs" (see >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7b...). This was great. I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the trigger on actually doing the work.
>> >> I've since set up a contribution page at >> >> http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to >> >> actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind >> >> enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the >> >> flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful >> >> thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless >> >> Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
>> >> chipin.com uses PayPal to collect the money. If sending money via >> >> PayPal is not convenient for you or your organization for some reason, >> >> please contact me off-list and we can arrange for some other mechanism.
>> >> Although the goal was $5000.00 originally, I've put the target at >> >> $5500.00 to offset Paypal transfer fees. Assuming we reach the goal, >> >> Agendaless will keep about $300 of this money to cover those fees.
>> >> Thank you!
>> >> - C
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> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:03 +0100, Hynek Schlawack wrote: > >> It worked fine for me – also from Germany. You have to set the pledge on the left side before logging in, I got that wrong on my first try.
> >> Cheers, > >> Hynek
> > If using the chipin site is an issue, and you still want to use PayPal, > > you can send the funds to "agendal...@paypal.com" using PayPal directly, > > for what it's worth. If this doesn't work for you for whatever reason, > > please contact me offlist and we can try to work it out.
> > - C
> >> Am 16.02.2012 um 09:14 schrieb Robert Forkel:
> >> > hm. payment didn't work for me (from germany). the form always > >> > complained about missing information.
> >> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi folks,
> >> >> Lots of people pledged some amount of money in the recent thread > >> >> entitled "need your help to overhaul docs" (see > >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7b...). This was great. I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the trigger on actually doing the work.
> >> >> I've since set up a contribution page at > >> >> http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to > >> >> actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind > >> >> enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the > >> >> flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful > >> >> thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless > >> >> Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
> >> >> chipin.com uses PayPal to collect the money. If sending money via > >> >> PayPal is not convenient for you or your organization for some reason, > >> >> please contact me off-list and we can arrange for some other mechanism.
> >> >> Although the goal was $5000.00 originally, I've put the target at > >> >> $5500.00 to offset Paypal transfer fees. Assuming we reach the goal, > >> >> Agendaless will keep about $300 of this money to cover those fees.
> >> >> Thank you!
> >> >> - C
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On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 01:10 -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: > Hi folks,
> Lots of people pledged some amount of money in the recent thread > entitled "need your help to overhaul docs" (see > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7b...). This was great. I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the trigger on actually doing the work.
> I've since set up a contribution page at > http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to > actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind > enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the > flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful > thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless > Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
I'm pleased to report that we've seen $2813.00 contributed so far via ChipIn, which is a little over 50% of our goal. This is great.
We, Japanese Pylons community, have sent 10,502 JPY (about 126 USD) via PayPal. If you would have any problems with JPY, please tell it me. I will resend in USD again.
We really want better documentation! We hope to help it.
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 03:20 +0900, 金子望 wrote: > Hi, Chris
> We, Japanese Pylons community, have sent 10,502 JPY (about 126 USD) via PayPal. > If you would have any problems with JPY, please tell it me. > I will resend in USD again.
> We really want better documentation! We hope to help it.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:10, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote:
I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the trigger on actually doing the work.
Yeah!
> I've since set up a contribution page at > http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to > actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind > enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the > flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful > thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless > Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 16:41 +0100, Sebastien Douche wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:10, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > I've spoken to Graham and I think we're about ready to pull the > trigger on actually doing the work.
> Yeah!
> > I've since set up a contribution page at > > http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul to > > actually accept the pledged funds. If folks who pledged would be kind > > enough to visit that page and click the orange "ChipIn" button on the > > flash widget on the right hand side of the page, and do the needful > > thereafter, I'd be grateful. The money will be sent to Agendaless > > Consulting, who will distribute it to Graham as necessary.
Status update: we've collected $3209.00 from *40* individual contributors so far. I'm blown away by this because I didn't think we even knew 40 individual people. ;-)
We are at 58% of the goal, and I see no reason to think we won't meet the goal of $5500.00 by March 30, which is the campaign cutoff date. I will likely be shaking folks down at PyCon for additional contributions.
In the meantime, Graham has begun to work out where to concentrate his efforts by automating the generation of "readability score" for each paragraph in the documentation. It's likely he'll publish the results of this effort publically soon.
On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 16:29 -0800, glsonline wrote: > $60 more towards the cause. Here's to having the best documented > Python-based framework out there!
