[Xymon] Handling donations (especially commercial ones)

[Gore, David W (David)]

I thought Henrik was in Copenhagen and he would use Danish Kroners?


~David


-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Phil Crooker
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 01:40
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Handling donations (especially commercial ones)

> 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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