[theforum] the donation bar
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sun Dec 14 04:46:32 CST 2003
On 13 Dec 2003, at 13:33, Elfur Logadottir wrote:
> As we know, the donation bar is showing target $10,500 but our target
> has
> since changed a lot
Yes, that's based on an annualised cost of our bandwidth at Ron's
rates, using our traffic of late 2002 iirc as a base. Our current
donated bandwidth should be worked out to a financial equivalent and
used to increase the total.
> so I'm thinking that maybe we should change it, but to
> what?
Well yes - that is the $64k question. And it will change if the new
steering decides that we should use financial donations to pay for
hosting of *eo, rather than using donated hosting.
> I also think we need to have better explanation as to how the needed
> amount
> is calculated
Yes
> and for what period it is. (me, i think we should have annual
> need and have the bar reset every new year,
Yes. And I can't think of a better date to base this on than errr...
today! (ie our birthday)
> with link to a better
> explanation, list of past years and such)
Yes
Cheers
Martin
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