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Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior [message #74910]

Wed, 09 February 2011 08:57

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Paul van Delst writes:

> I'm confused. I have several times thought to donate to your website for the work you do/services you provide, but I
> always interpreted the donation button as "any $$ donated will be forwarded onto a charity, with matching $$".
>
> The two things that occur to me are:
> 1) If I wanted to donate to a charity, I would do it myself.
> 2) If you are matching any donations, you obviously don't need any donations for your IDL efforts to begin with.
>
> Oh, and yes, I have become a total curmudgeon (I blame living in DC for 10+ years :o)

I believe the work I do for the IDL community
is "community service" and I feel guilty being
paid for it. My idea was that if people appreciated
the contributions I made to the community and felt
like they wanted to donate to that effort then I
would "play that donation forward" and try to
make a contribution to an even larger community.

I guess I envisioned ripples spreading in a pond.

I understand where you are coming from, though. I kind
of like the idea of "paying" for on-going development
effort. I'm thinking currently of having several buttons in
the new store:

Check the appropriate box:

__ Donate XXX to buy beers for Coyote on Friday Nights.

__ Donate XXX to spread joy and comfort around the World.

__ Donate XXX just for the hell of it and hope it will be
used for something I care about.

Choice three is sort of like paying IDL maintenance on your IDL
license. Maybe people will actually go for that. :-)

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: David Fanning on Wed, 09 February 2011 08:57
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 09 February 2011 08:38
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: David Fanning on Wed, 09 February 2011 07:09
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: guillermo.castilla.ca on Wed, 09 February 2011 06:54
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 08 February 2011 08:26
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: pgrigis on Tue, 08 February 2011 07:30
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: David Fanning on Mon, 07 February 2011 16:50
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 07 February 2011 15:59
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Gray on Mon, 07 February 2011 14:07
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 09 February 2011 10:30
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 09 February 2011 10:33

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