Showing posts with label donations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label donations. Show all posts

Donations Status & Upcoming Release

Dear Reader, this is a quick update on the donations status and the upcoming first release we are working on heavily.

The good news first: to the left you can see a sreenshot of the chat software we will publish soon. We are coding the last lines and have to integrate the software into the new installer. Surely some polishing has to be done but now we can see the end of the tunnel.

And now the very good news. You reached goal 1 for this quarter! We are thankful and proud. But that does not mean the project does not need your donations anymore. Keep up the good spirit and do not forget to grab a copy of Adobe AIR, so you can use our our little program.

Goal-o-meter

There is now a picture from Google Docs available, which shows how much of the Donations Goal 2 is already achieved:

% of Goal 2 Reached:

Donations and Cost Explained

I added an explanation and a graph to the Donation page. The graph shows our past costs, expected costs in the next 3 months, and the donations.

We defined 3 goals. We are very close to the first goal and we hope to reach the second goal. Read more on the Donation page.

Donations

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Donations will be used for server operating cost and other technical expenses.
Even small donations can make a difference.












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What you are Donating for...

The project has costs for technical and other expenses. Some are one time fees and some are recurring. We split the cost up into several levels:

  • Goal 1: production server (will be ordered in November, currently 0 €, then about 50 € per month. Setup fee is 150 €)
  • Goal 2: test server + other technical cost
  • Goal 3: office rent (yes, we have an office and we pay it since June 2009 because it makes the work more effective) and all other project related cost. Goal 3 is currently at 2000 € and not shown in the chart.
  • We are not talking about salaries and work time at all. This is only the cost we pay to run the project.

We are paying everything from our private wallet. If we get donations, then we can spare some of our private expenses. And we are thankful for that.

We hope that donations cover Goal 1. We would be very happy if we can get to Goal 2 later.

Be assured, that we really pay Goal 3 from our private money every month (not shown in the chart).