22 Apr
2020
22 Apr
'20
3:54 p.m.
On Wednesday 22 April 2020 09:57:57 am William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
On Wednesday 22 April 2020 05:50:09 Thierry de Coulon
wrote:
I've the same issues as Bill. I've found this:
"The TDE project was founded by and is still led by Timothy Pearson. Timothy
is an experienced and skilled software developer and was the KDE 3.x
coordinator of previous Kubuntu releases."
So my best GUESS is that Timothy is the one who gets donations. But... The
last time I offered website/hosting/mirroring support I didn’t get a reply
[1]. The last time (most likely ever time actually) I donated I got nothing
back as an acknowledgment. Both are really off putting.
The last time I can find donations in TDE ‘news’ is 2012 (twice), but even for
the $2,241.50 [2] collected there is no ‘who donated list.’ ‘who donated
lists’ being one of the biggest ways to get businesses to donate, as they get
a link back and positive public relations.
MX Linux seemed at least interested in having TDE bundled in their releases
alongside Xfce, but who on this side would coordinate that? Timothy?
Like most here I’d like TDE to have a wider exposure and acceptance, but
Timothy himself seems to be the biggest limiting factors to that.
What to do? Got no idea, it seems to be up to Timothy?
Best All,
Michael
[1] I own:
Internet Design Alliance, http://inet-design.com/
Services include:
Fully Managed Dedicated Servers
Fully Managed Drupal Hosting
FailOver Backup and High Availability Solutions
DNS clustering
So it’s not like I don’t routinely have ‘spare capacity’ to donate. So
getting nothing as a reply did leave me a bit ‘butthurt.’
[2] https://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsentry.php?entry=2012.05.01
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On Wednesday 22 April 2020 12.43:52 Dr. Nikolaus
Klepp wrote:
It certainly got a lot of comments, even though the matter does not (as you
say) awaken any great interest.
I think the question here is *how* anybody could take charge, even if they
were so inclined. When I want to donate money to TDE, I run into the same
problem. I hear that it can be done through PayPal (which I try to avoid),
but that is about all I know.
So if anybody were to make arrangements, how would we know that any of the
funds were to go to TDE? From what I can see, those persons would be going
into business for themselves, rather than helping TDE, because nobody knows
how to get in touch with somebody who has authority over the financial side
of Trinity. Or, if such persons do exist, there is no contact information
that I can find anywhere.
A link on the TDE homepage would be nice
If anyone is interrested in the site's address ask me (or search for
Gabor Kum).