[Xymon] Handling donations (especially commercial ones)

[Josh Luthman]

We can't pay in USD?

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Oct 5, 2011 9:46 PM, "Phil Crooker" <Phil.Crooker at orix.com.au> wrote:
>> Most managers won't know what a € (euro) is. I'd suggest putting
> ($1000)
>> after it.
>
> If that is a problem you could put (Euro) or EU:
>
> Site license for less than 50 hosts: EU€ 100/year
>
> Site license for less than 50 hosts: € 100/year (Euro)
>
> It needs to be kept as Euros as that is the currency.
>
> cheers, Phil
>
>
>>>> On 6/10/2011 at 8:19 AM, in message
> <CAN9qwJ9P4AwxyANJnMpFNJxYFjPYUiUHG0oD+MW28q_jvNmgZQ at mail.gmail.com>,
> Josh
> Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>> Most managers won't know what a € (euro) is. I'd suggest putting
> ($1000)
>> after it.
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>>
>> 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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>>> Xymon at xymon.com
>>>
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