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Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

От
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Дата:
>>Alternately, maybe it's time to try to get the fundraising operation into
>>gear.  Greg?  What's our status for setup?
>
>
> My goal is to have everything done by January 31st.

Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations'
system whereby people can donate money to projects.  Maybe you want to
enable it on the PostgreSQL project.

We at the phpPgAdmin project don't really have any use for donations,
but we could just forward them all through to the PostgreSQL project?

Would this be at all useful?

Chris

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

От
"Marc G. Fournier"
Дата:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>
> >>Alternately, maybe it's time to try to get the fundraising operation into
> >>gear.  Greg?  What's our status for setup?
> >
> >
> > My goal is to have everything done by January 31st.
>
> Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations'
> system whereby people can donate money to projects.  Maybe you want to
> enable it on the PostgreSQL project.
>
> We at the phpPgAdmin project don't really have any use for donations,
> but we could just forward them all through to the PostgreSQL project?
>
> Would this be at all useful?

Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you
lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge?

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Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

От
Tom Lane
Дата:
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations'
> system whereby people can donate money to projects.  Maybe you want to
> enable it on the PostgreSQL project.

Uh ... there is no PostgreSQL project on SourceForge, AFAIK.

            regards, tom lane

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

От
Christopher Browne
Дата:
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' 
>> system whereby people can donate money to projects.  Maybe you want to 
>> enable it on the PostgreSQL project.
>
> Uh ... there is no PostgreSQL project on SourceForge, AFAIK.

Uh, you might be surprised....

<http://pgsql.sourceforge.net/>
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsql/>
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Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

От
"Joshua D. Drake"
Дата:


Would this be at all useful?   
Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you
lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge?
 
If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through paypal.



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Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

От
"Marc G. Fournier"
Дата:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
> >>
> >>Would this be at all useful?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you
> >lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge?
> >
> >
> >
> If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through
> paypal.

I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ...
Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems.  In
fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account
and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us
they wouldn't use it.  We, as a business, have had something like 25 "new
clients" sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen
from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ...

We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card
services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a
company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to
have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about
their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current
one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ...

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Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON

От
Andrew Dunstan
Дата:

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>>Would this be at all useful?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you
>>>lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through
>>paypal.
>>    
>>
>
>I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ...
>Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems.  In
>fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account
>and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us
>they wouldn't use it.  We, as a business, have had something like 25 "new
>clients" sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen
>from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ...
>
>We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card
>services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a
>company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to
>have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about
>their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current
>one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ...
>  
>

Agreed. You might also look at http://www.2checkout.com/ - I have heard 
they are OK, and their fees don't look outrageous. I also have a friend 
who runs a web payment service, who might be able to help. I can ask him 
if people are interested.

cheers

andrew





Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

От
"Joshua D. Drake"
Дата:
>I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ...
>Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems.  In
>fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account
>and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us
>they wouldn't use it.  We, as a business, have had something like 25 "new
>clients" sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen
>from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ...
>
>
All due respect but that is just bad mojo in general. We have had zero
problems
with paypal. We also don't use them as our primary payment. We use a real
merchant account and checking account for that.

However paypal is good for a lot of things. Namely you want to provide the
most ways to get paid (perfect for donations). It has also greatly increased
its security and viability sense that really big billion dollar company
call E-bay
bought it.

>We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card
>services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a
>company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to
>
>
We use Echo, which also accepts electronic check but remember we are talking
about donations here, not a for profit accepting credit cards.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




>have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about
>their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current
>one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ...
>
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>Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
>
>


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