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All,
A big Thank You for participating in our end of year fundraiser for 2016. Your contributions were much appreciated, and will help to keep TDE online.
The total received only came to a small fraction of the operating costs for the TDE core services, so we will probably be running another fundraiser this spring and exploring options in terms of disconnecting or downgrading certain services to lower operating costs.
We do have several incentives to make an annual contribution. At the $200 level or above (per year) we will allow access to our up-to-date builds of Raspbian with TDE preinstalled, along with other goodies. As before, if you have a particularly nasty bug you want fixed, a good way to get attention is to offer a contribution in exchange for the fix -- proceeds go to keeping TDE online and available for all to use.
Thank you again for your support!
Tim
Timothy, can you reveal any numbers, like how much was collected or how much is missing?
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Dnia czwartek, 5 stycznia 2017, Timothy Pearson napisał:
All,
A big Thank You for participating in our end of year fundraiser for 2016. Your contributions were much appreciated, and will help to keep TDE online.
The total received only came to a small fraction of the operating costs for the TDE core services, so we will probably be running another fundraiser this spring and exploring options in terms of disconnecting or downgrading certain services to lower operating costs.
We do have several incentives to make an annual contribution. At the $200 level or above (per year) we will allow access to our up-to-date builds of Raspbian with TDE preinstalled, along with other goodies. As before, if you have a particularly nasty bug you want fixed, a good way to get attention is to offer a contribution in exchange for the fix -- proceeds go to keeping TDE online and available for all to use.
Thank you again for your support!
Tim
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Timothy, can you reveal any numbers, like how much was collected or how much is missing?
In general I don't expect the community to fund all of the hosting; I've always covered the majority of the expenses and, for the most part, expect it to remain this way. Keeping TDE online costs many thousands of dollars every year, largely due to bandwidth and storage costs that can't be reduced without disabling services. Around 25% of these costs were received in 2016; it becomes easier for me to be able to work on TDE if that number is closer to 50%. We had far lower numbers in 2015, so at least the trend is good!
Tim
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I would have liked to contribute to TDE but I could not log into my PayPal account. The apparent reason is that my account is registered in Canada; whereas I am in Thailand for the next three months. The questions raised by this odd behaviour who or what caused it and why.
I have been in Thailand already for two months and made several Pay Pal payments with my Canadian account to purchase various goods and services domiciled in Europe and Asia. Last evening I made several Skype calls to Pay Pal and spent over an hour last evening finally talking -- once I got beyond their useless voice mail response -- to five different Pay Pal people. One told me that accouding to their 'system' my account was not blocked. Another thought that maybe because I was in Thailand I could not use my Canadian account there even though I had already done so. The other three did not understand what I was talking about. All is typical for what passes as 'service' these days, I suppose.
As I mentioned most of my international payments while in Thailand were successful. One however was not -- a payment to a retailer in Thailand. It consequently seems possible to me that the presumptive receiver of the payment may be able to limit geographically the areas of the world from which he will accept payment -- possibly because of perceived shipping difficulties, risk of money laundering or other similar lame excuses.
Is Trinity able to receive donations from everywhere regardless of the location of the payer, whether physically located in the country where his Pay Pal account originates or elsewhere?
Regards, Ken Heard
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I would have liked to contribute to TDE but I could not log into my PayPal account. The apparent reason is that my account is registered in Canada; whereas I am in Thailand for the next three months. The questions raised by this odd behaviour who or what caused it and why.
I have been in Thailand already for two months and made several Pay Pal payments with my Canadian account to purchase various goods and services domiciled in Europe and Asia. Last evening I made several Skype calls to Pay Pal and spent over an hour last evening finally talking -- once I got beyond their useless voice mail response -- to five different Pay Pal people. One told me that accouding to their 'system' my account was not blocked. Another thought that maybe because I was in Thailand I could not use my Canadian account there even though I had already done so. The other three did not understand what I was talking about. All is typical for what passes as 'service' these days, I suppose.
As I mentioned most of my international payments while in Thailand were successful. One however was not -- a payment to a retailer in Thailand. It consequently seems possible to me that the presumptive receiver of the payment may be able to limit geographically the areas of the world from which he will accept payment -- possibly because of perceived shipping difficulties, risk of money laundering or other similar lame excuses.
Is Trinity able to receive donations from everywhere regardless of the location of the payer, whether physically located in the country where his Pay Pal account originates or elsewhere?
There are no restrictions on the TDE PayPal account that I am aware of. I'd suspect some kind of undisclosed security "feature" in PayPal to prevent donations being sent while you're out of the country -- in my experience, PayPal is very reticent (or unable to) discuss such things.
For instance, I am aware of at least one transaction (not related to this account) that required the PayPal user to log out and pay manually with credit card via PayPal while not logged in (!). I suppose you could try that if you were wanting to use your card, otherwise you may just need to wait until you're back. We accept donations all year for TDE. :-)
Thanks again!
Tim
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On 2017-01-07 00:59, Timothy Pearson wrote:
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There are no restrictions on the TDE PayPal account that I am aware of. I'd suspect some kind of undisclosed security "feature" in PayPal to prevent donations being sent while you're out of the country -- in my experience, PayPal is very reticent (or unable to) discuss such things.
It goes without saying that these "security" features, if they exist, are to protect Pay Pal rather than the customer.
For instance, I am aware of at least one transaction (not related to this account) that required the PayPal user to log out and pay manually with credit card via PayPal while not logged in (!). I suppose you could try that if you were wanting to use your card,
I tried that. Pay Pal's response was that since I had an account if should use it rather than pay as a "guest".
otherwise you may just need to
wait until you're back. We accept donations all year for TDE. :-)
That is what I will have to do when I am back next May.
Regards, Ken
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