Contributing

[Gonzalo Garramuno]

I would like to thank Manolo, Albrecht, Mathias and Greg for all their hard work. I would like to contribute u$100 to fltk development that I have in a PayPal account. I was wondering if there’s a way to do so easily (another Paypal account for example). I am very appreciative of Manolo and Albrecht helping me with the bugs I found.

Thank you in advance.

—
Gonzalo Garramuno
ggar...@gmail.com

[Gonzalo Garramuño]

El 23/4/22 a las 09:19, Gonzalo Garramuno escribió:

> I would like to contribute u$100 to fltk development that I have in a PayPal account. I was wondering if there’s a way to do so easily (another Paypal account for example).

Due to the lack of responses, I have to assume this is not possible (or
that the amount is too little).

I just wanted to donate something due to all the hard work of you guys
(Bill, Manolo, Albrecht, Mathias, Greg, Ian and anyone else I forgot).

--
Gonzalo Garramuño
ggar...@gmail.com

[melcher....@googlemail.com]

Hi Gonzalo,

thanks you for your very nice idea to contribute to FLTK. Please understand that we can not check mails daily on the multiple discussions groups, and reactions sometimes take a while until our daily chores, jobs, families etc. allow us to react to FLTK messages, as for most (all?) of us, writing for this library is a hobby.

As for me personally, I appreciate your offer very much. I would like to ask the other devs for suggestions on how to use this amount in a way that benefits FLTK. Not sure who is currently paying the registration fees for fltk.org, but maybe this would make up for some of the server cost and help FLTK.org to stay online? @Albrecht?

 - Matthias

[Albrecht Schlosser]

On 4/26/22 12:47 'melcher....@googlemail.com' via fltk.coredev wrote:
> Hi Gonzalo,
>
> thanks you for your very nice idea to contribute to FLTK. Please
> understand that we can not check mails daily on the multiple
> discussions groups, and reactions sometimes take a while until our
> daily chores, jobs, families etc. allow us to react to FLTK messages,
> as for most (all?) of us, writing for this library is a hobby.

I couldn't have said it better. Thank you, Gonzalo, for your great
offer, this is very much appreciated.

> As for me personally, I appreciate your offer very much. I would like
> to ask the other devs for suggestions on how to use this amount in a
> way that benefits FLTK. Not sure who is currently paying the
> registration fees for fltk.org, but maybe this would make up for some
> of the server cost and help FLTK.org to stay online? @Albrecht?

Currently Greg ("Erco") is paying for the FLTK server hosting and I
believe this would be the best choice to help with money. However I
don't know how to transfer the money (technically) and to organize such
donations transparently if possible. I'm not sure if there is an account
of the hosting company that can be used to accumulate some money to pay
the bills in advance or whatever. Such details could only be answered by
Greg.

If someone knows of a good way to open "an account for donations"
(Paypal or whatever) or something similar which we can use to pay for
the server all input would be appreciated.

Thanks again, Gonzalo.

Albrecht

[Greg Ercolano]

On 4/26/22 09:28, Albrecht Schlosser wrote:

On 4/26/22 12:47 'melcher....@googlemail.com' via fltk.coredev wrote:

Hi Gonzalo,

thanks you for your very nice idea to contribute to FLTK. Please understand that we can not check mails daily on the multiple discussions groups, and reactions sometimes take a while until our daily chores, jobs, families etc. allow us to react to FLTK messages, as for most (all?) of us, writing for this library is a hobby.

I couldn't have said it better. Thank you, Gonzalo, for your great offer, this is very much appreciated.

As for me personally, I appreciate your offer very much. I would like to ask the other devs for suggestions on how to use this amount in a way that benefits FLTK. Not sure who is currently paying the registration fees for fltk.org, but maybe this would make up for some of the server cost and help FLTK.org to stay online? @Albrecht?

Currently Greg ("Erco") is paying for the FLTK server hosting and I believe this would be the best choice to help with money. However I don't know how to transfer the money (technically) and to organize such donations transparently if possible. I'm not sure if there is an account of the hosting company that can be used to accumulate some money to pay the bills in advance or whatever. Such details could only be answered by Greg.

    I've received Gonzalo's contribution this morning, and it will all go towards
    the hard costs of maintaining the FLTK webserver/domain.

If someone knows of a good way to open "an account for donations" (Paypal or whatever) or something similar which we can use to pay for the server all input would be appreciated.

    Ya, here in the US it's kinda complicated -- basically some kind of non-profit
    entity I think needs to be created, as there's tax implications for any kind of "income",
    Not sure about other countries.

    There's a bit written on the web about setting up open source contributions,
    and there's web services like Patreon that manages donations and such.
    We can probably discuss offline about the details amongst the devs.

[Mo_Al_]

Hi

Is there a link for donation? If so, it could probably be added to the github repo.

[Greg Ercolano]

On 11/28/22 05:17, Mo_Al_ wrote:

Hi

Is there a link for donation?

No, it's technically difficult to accept money (taxes and whatnot),
but thanks for the offer.

I've been covering the cost of the server and fltk domain,
which AFAIK are the only hard costs for FLTK.

And after switching server providers a few years ago, the cost is down
to around $125/yr which is fairly comfortable.