On Thursday 22 December 2016 16:05:01 Timothy Pearson wrote:
All,
I'll keep this short and simple. The TDE project needs your financial support to continue hosting the services critical for further development.
This year we are have fallen significantly short of breaking even on the monthly expenses needed to keep TDE online and under active development; these expenses primarily consist of electricity for the TDE servers and Internet bandwidth. I have been covering the shortfall for several years now, but it has become a great strain over the past few months. If you would prefer to offer financial rewards for fixing specific bugs, that works too, but the bottom line is we need additional financial support to avoid further service cuts that could slow / stop development.
We are not in a position to outsource portions of the TDE infrastructure beyond what has already been migrated to external systems such as the mirror distribution system. Attempting to split up the remaining core would simply incur even higher bandwidth costs than what we already have, and altering the stable, running system at this point could end up halting development entirely.
Finally, I'd like to personally thank those individuals who have donated, are hosting portions of the TDE infrastructure such as the mirror system and backup site, or have been actively working on TDE development over the past year. Your contributions are much appreciated, and TDE would not be possible without them!
If you can, please donate to the TDE project here, and thanks!
https://trinitydesktop.org/donate.php
Timothy Pearson TDE Founder
Timothy:
I have or had a paypal account that I haven't used recently, as in 45 days or so, but all of my attempts to login and donate, I am always stuck at the spinning wheel wait screen, either after hitting enter using ff's password linked phrase, or clearing the and re-entering it by hand. Same result.
I am a convert to the TANSTAAFL phrase since RAH made it famous several decades ago, and I have been the recipient of your largess long enough I should pay the rent, as much as I can afford on SS. But after 15 minutes, I'm still looking at the please wait spinner. And a page refresh, f5, just continues the spinner.
If you are in the US, PM me with a USPS address, and I'll have my bank send you a check. I think the day after Christmas business has crashed paypal!
Cheers and thank you Timothy, Gene Heskett