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Re: support donations (was Re: future of Looper's Delight (long)



Violet I wondered and was surprised that had not been thusfar mentioned.  At some point it may become necessary to support another site that I am also part of and what has been discussed there is a kind of low cost to everyone meaning everyone pay a few dollars towards the monthly fees, the more that support it the lower the individual costs.  I would vote for soemthing like this to support LD but not sure how many feel that way.

What are the monthly expenses currently, which I assume is hosting and the domain is yearly no?  Also if the current host is a lot I use a company called http://www.1and1.com that is very affordable and they figure in the domain name cost.

Thoughts?

Jim

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Stephen Goodman <spgoodman@earthlight.net> wrote:
Yep.

From: TR
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:18 PM
Subject: RE: support donations (was Re: future of Looper's Delight (long)

ditto...

--- On Tue, 6/29/10, Gareth Whittock <buddhamachine@live.co.uk> wrote:

From: Gareth Whittock <buddhamachine@live.co.uk>
Subject: RE: support donations (was Re: future of Looper's Delight (long)
To: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 10:13 AM

I'd be happy to pay an annual subscription for this group, (I think it's the only one I would do that for).
 
Gareth
 
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:10:04 -0700
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> From: violet@missviolet.com
> Subject: support donations (was Re: future of Looper's Delight (long)
>
> Jim wrote:
> >One thing I"ve wondered about that you didn't reference unless I missed it
> >but I gather Kim was paying for the hosting/domain as a labor of love.
> >Are you going to need help from the community in maintaining that expense?
> >I know the shirts were to generate some capital for that and though I've
> >not yet purchased I'm going to. If need be I would chip in to the site
> >costs.
>
> That's an important question and I'm glad you brought it up.
>
> Yes, Kim was paying out of his pocket as a labor of love, and I will need
> help now. For years we've had ads on our sites (which pay peanuts and
> don't even begin to cover cost) and Kim has Paypal buttons on Looper's
> Delight.
>
> However, all of those things were in Kim's name and I can't access them, so
> I'm going to have to scramble to try to get those changed over to my
> accounts. (Google AdSense required us to lump all of our ad accounts under
> one primary account, so I can't even access proceeds the Google ads on MY
> site are bringing in right now.)
>
> The t-shirts are a labor of love as well. Zazzle requires a minimum
> mark-up and it's only something like $2.00/shirt. We left that at the
> minimum, because the shirts are already a bit expensive (we went with them
> because of the higher quality) and we didn't want people not to be able to
> afford them, so the proceeds we're getting are a drop in the bucket and
> won't come close to covering the cost, especially not over the long-term.
>
> So it is VERY important right now that if anyone wants to donate to help
> pay cost of the server/hosting, please go to MY website,
> http://undented.com, and donate using the Donate button at the top of the
> right-hand column. That goes to a Paypal account that I can access myself.
> All of those donations will be used to support the sites.
>
> The server bill has been overdue for the past week, but the co-lo facility
> is working with us and has given us an extension. I've told them I will do
> my best to pay on the 1st.
>
> Violet
> xoxox
>


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