pylonsproject.chipin.com set up for docs overhaul pledge collections

[Chris McDonough]

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/7bd833209369bc5f). 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

[Robert Forkel]

hm. payment didn't work for me (from germany). the form always
complained about missing information.

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[artee]

50$ was transfered...
There was some delay between payment and display that information on ChipIn gadget.

Thanks
Artur Lew

[Simon Yarde]

Pledge made just now as promised.

Confirm there is a slight delay on your payment showing-up, don't panic!

Best
Simon

[Hynek Schlawack]

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

[Chris McDonough]

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 "agend...@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

[Brian Brinegar]

Contribution made, though hadn't originally pledged.

Brian

[Chris McDonough]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 11:32 -0500, Brian Brinegar wrote:
> Contribution made, though hadn't originally pledged.
>
> Brian

Thank you Brian, Hynek, Artur, Robert and everyone else who sent in
donations.

We've got about $1800 sent over so far, which is a good start. Thanks,
in particular to Fabian Reinhard from Seantis gmbh, who contributed
$1000.

- C

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Some people may not be aware of this. Maybe you should put a link to the
contribution page on the Pylons homepage.

-- Christoph

[Tjelvar]

$50 transferred.

Cheers,

Tjelvar

[Chris McDonough]

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/7bd833209369bc5f). 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.

- C

[Iain Duncan]

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.

Awesome! Just did my $50.00

Iain

[金子望]

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.

--
Nozomu Kaneko
nozom....@gmail.com

[Chris McDonough]

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.

Thank you!

>
> --
> Nozomu Kaneko
> nozom....@gmail.com
>

[Sebastien Douche]

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.

50$ done.

> Thank you!

Thank you Chris.

PS: Now I want a fantastic doc ;)

--
Sebastien Douche <sdo...@gmail.com>
Twitter: @sdouche / G+: +sdouche

[Chris McDonough]

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.
>
> 50$ done.

Thanks a lot!

>
> > Thank you!
>
> Thank you Chris.
>
> PS: Now I want a fantastic doc ;)

As if it would be anything but! ;-)

- C

[Chris McDonough]

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. ;-)

http://pylonsproject.chipin.com/pyramid-documentation-overhaul

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.

- C

[glsonline]

$60 more towards the cause. Here's to having the best documented
Python-based framework out there!

Thanks guys.

Greg

[Chris McDonough]

Thank you!