[Xymon] Handling donations (especially commercial ones)

[Josh Luthman]

Most managers won't know what a € (euro) is.  I'd suggest putting ($1000)
after it.

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been contacted off-list by a long-time Xymon user, who had some
> thoughts about how companies can help the Xymon project along by donating
> some money to the project. We discussed this a bit, and he suggested that I
> float my ideas on the mailing list for input - and gave me permission to
> quote from his e-mails.
>
> He wrote:
>
> "I realise (along with others) that you put a huge effort into xymon and
> given that our company uses the application extensively I would like to push
> to get the company to donate something on a regular basis. It may not be big
> but that’s something we can work on over time.
>
> "I've been involved in another open source project for a while now and what
> they did was to create an association based in Germany to which payments can
> be given to a dedicated bank account. This model works for our company from
> a donation point of view but I was just wondering if you had any plans to do
> something similar?"
>
>
> After thinking about this for a while, I think I can see some issues that
> companies might have with donating to the project via PayPal, which is
> currently the only option. There was another user recently who sent me a
> nice donation, but apparently it felt awkward enough for them to do so via
> PayPal that they contacted me directly afterwards, to make sure that the
> donation really did come through.
>
>
> The recent discussion about "Big environment" deployments of Xymon clearly
> shows that there are some places where Xymon is *really* used a lot. So
> maybe there are more companies who could be convinced to support Xymon - me
> - with donations.
>
>
> So what I came up with was this:
>
> "I do have a company registered here in Denmark, so perhaps I should
> consider using that for accepting corporate donations. Then I can
> provide genuine invoices, VAT-numbers etc - all the stuff that companies
> normally expect when they buy software. And they can transfer the amount to
> an official bank account with a proper IBAN bank account number ..."
>
>
> And to make this a bit more formalised, I've added this page to the Xymon
> website: http://www.xymon.com/license/
>
>
> It is important for me to emphasize that Xymon is, and always will be,
> available free of charge under an open source license - regardless of how or
> where it is being used. So when I write about "buying a license" to use
> Xymon, it is only because that is the kind of language most manager-types
> can understand (hmm, I sincerely hope I didn't offend anyone with that
> blatant generalisation). You will not be required to buy a license - but it
> gives you a really nice feeling :-)
>
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughs you have about this, and if You'd rather discuss
> it off-list just mail me directly.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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