<p>We can't pay in USD?</p>
<p>Josh Luthman<br>
Office: 937-552-2340<br>
Direct: 937-552-2343<br>
1100 Wayne St<br>
Suite 1337<br>
Troy, OH 45373</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 5, 2011 9:46 PM, "Phil Crooker" <<a href="mailto:Phil.Crooker@orix.com.au">Phil.Crooker@orix.com.au</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">>> Most managers won't know what a € (euro) is. I'd suggest putting<br>
> ($1000)<br>>> after it.<br>> <br>> If that is a problem you could put (Euro) or EU:<br>> <br>> Site license for less than 50 hosts: EU€ 100/year<br>> <br>> Site license for less than 50 hosts: € 100/year (Euro)<br>
> <br>> It needs to be kept as Euros as that is the currency.<br>> <br>> cheers, Phil<br>> <br>> <br>>>>> On 6/10/2011 at 8:19 AM, in message<br>> <<a href="mailto:CAN9qwJ9P4AwxyANJnMpFNJxYFjPYUiUHG0oD%2BMW28q_jvNmgZQ@mail.gmail.com">CAN9qwJ9P4AwxyANJnMpFNJxYFjPYUiUHG0oD+MW28q_jvNmgZQ@mail.gmail.com</a>>,<br>
> Josh<br>> Luthman <<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Most managers won't know what a € (euro) is. I'd suggest putting<br>> ($1000)<br>
>> after it.<br>>> <br>>> Josh Luthman<br>>> Office: 937-552-2340<br>>> Direct: 937-552-2343<br>>> 1100 Wayne St<br>>> Suite 1337<br>>> Troy, OH 45373<br>>> <br>>> <br>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Henrik Størner <<a href="mailto:henrik@hswn.dk">henrik@hswn.dk</a>><br>> wrote:<br>>> <br>>>> Hi everyone,<br>>>><br>>>> I've been contacted off-list by a long-time Xymon user, who had<br>
> some<br>>>> thoughts about how companies can help the Xymon project along by<br>> donating<br>>>> some money to the project. We discussed this a bit, and he suggested<br>> that I<br>>>> float my ideas on the mailing list for input - and gave me<br>
> permission to<br>>>> quote from his e-mails.<br>>>><br>>>> He wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> "I realise (along with others) that you put a huge effort into xymon<br>> and<br>
>>> given that our company uses the application extensively I would like<br>> to push<br>>>> to get the company to donate something on a regular basis. It may<br>> not be big<br>>>> but that’s something we can work on over time.<br>
>>><br>>>> "I've been involved in another open source project for a while now<br>> and what<br>>>> they did was to create an association based in Germany to which<br>> payments can<br>
>>> be given to a dedicated bank account. This model works for our<br>> company from<br>>>> a donation point of view but I was just wondering if you had any<br>> plans to do<br>>>> something similar?"<br>
>>><br>>>><br>>>> After thinking about this for a while, I think I can see some issues<br>> that<br>>>> companies might have with donating to the project via PayPal, which<br>> is<br>
>>> currently the only option. There was another user recently who sent<br>> me a<br>>>> nice donation, but apparently it felt awkward enough for them to do<br>> so via<br>>>> PayPal that they contacted me directly afterwards, to make sure that<br>
> the<br>>>> donation really did come through.<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> The recent discussion about "Big environment" deployments of Xymon<br>> clearly<br>>>> shows that there are some places where Xymon is *really* used a lot.<br>
> So<br>>>> maybe there are more companies who could be convinced to support<br>> Xymon - me<br>>>> - with donations.<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> So what I came up with was this:<br>
>>><br>>>> "I do have a company registered here in Denmark, so perhaps I<br>> should<br>>>> consider using that for accepting corporate donations. Then I can<br>>>> provide genuine invoices, VAT-numbers etc - all the stuff that<br>
> companies<br>>>> normally expect when they buy software. And they can transfer the<br>> amount to<br>>>> an official bank account with a proper IBAN bank account number<br>> ..."<br>>>><br>
>>><br>>>> And to make this a bit more formalised, I've added this page to the<br>> Xymon<br>>>> website: <a href="http://www.xymon.com/license/">http://www.xymon.com/license/</a> <br>>>><br>
>>><br>>>> It is important for me to emphasize that Xymon is, and always will<br>> be,<br>>>> available free of charge under an open source license - regardless<br>> of how or<br>>>> where it is being used. So when I write about "buying a license" to<br>
> use<br>>>> Xymon, it is only because that is the kind of language most<br>> manager-types<br>>>> can understand (hmm, I sincerely hope I didn't offend anyone with<br>> that<br>>>> blatant generalisation). You will not be required to buy a license -<br>
> but it<br>>>> gives you a really nice feeling :-)<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> I'd appreciate any thoughs you have about this, and if You'd rather<br>> discuss<br>>>> it off-list just mail me directly.<br>
>>><br>>>><br>>>> Regards,<br>>>> Henrik<br>>>> ______________________________**_________________<br>>>> Xymon mailing list<br>>>> <a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a> <br>
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