22 Apr
2020
22 Apr
'20
6:20 p.m.
On Wednesday 22 April 2020 09:42:24 Michael wrote:
HUH.
And now that I've checked out that link ...
I've been here before, but as I say, I have bad luck with PayPal (always get
rejected when I try to use it, no explanations); but I will give it another
go.
Or did you do bitcoin? It is about time I learned to use it, as the whole
world's economy is falling apart around us, and that might come in handy.
Bill
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On Wednesday 22 April 2020 11:11:27 am William Morder
via trinity-users
wrote:
On Wednesday
22 April 2020 08:54:47 Michael wrote:
Mr Pearson's avoidance of publicity or even contact with others seems
more like the behavior of a celebrity (film or music star) who is
constantly overwhelmed with unwanted attention. And I could understand
that; for whatever reason, one may not wish to interact with others. (We
all have our reasons, now and then, and nobody avoids other people more
than myself.)
But, I keep thinking, why not delegate those tasks to others who are more
sociable? I believe that the one thing we all want is for TDE to keep
going, because other desktops, by comparison, are crap; either they are
crap, or they are total crap, or they are the sort of ripe stinking
festering CRAP that gives other ordinary crap a bad name. Even the best
of the competition doesn't come close.
;) I've been told 'crap' is my favorite word, the above was highly amusing
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:
> On Wednesday 22 April 2020 12.43:52 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > 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).
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.
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 Somehow or other, TDE keeps going, and
development keeps moving forward;
so the bills get paid, servers keep running, the website stays online.
Yet I feel rather like my using Trinity is an exercise in faith, and we
must all keep hoping and praying that it does not come to an end, even
though there is nothing that we can do to help.
Anyway, if somebody could point me toward some links to donate, I had
promised awhile back to make a donation. I was planning to do this around
about my birthday, which was the end of February; and then all this
Covid-19 stuff suddenly got in the way. But now I am thinking it is time
to make good.
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/donate.php
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