[Xymon] Handling donations (especially commercial ones)

[Ralph Mitchell]

That's what management is for - working out the fiddling details, like
currency exchange...  :)

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

> We can't pay in USD?
>
> Josh Luthman
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> 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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