[Adium-devl] Fwd: [Adium-feedback] Donation to Adium

[Christopher Forsythe]

These folks were interviewed by NPR about their encryption and what  
not apparently.

Checked out BBB and other places and couldn't find anything  
disreputable. Maybe more information could be useful on what they'd  
want to have a link to.

I think a list of sponsors would be nice overall.

Chris


On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> This is an interesting offer... I'm sure we could find something  
> shiny to do with $1000.  We could perhaps have a SponsorsOfAdium  
> page, with links and information to our serious sponsors..  
> networkredux, cachefly, cocoaforge... software sponsors, like  
> codingmonkeys and buildfactory... and corporate sponsors, like this  
> mac.hush.com.  Any thoughts?
>
> -Evan
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "Hans Friedman" <hans.friedman at mac.hush.com>
>> Date: August 17, 2006 1:34:26 AM EDT
>> To: <feedback at adiumx.com>
>> Subject: [Adium-feedback] Donation to Adium
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is going out to a list or an individual, but
>> I'm writing in because my company would be interested in sponsoring
>> Adium by contributing $1,000 for development and associated costs
>> (via Paypal). We've got a number of mac devs on our team who have
>> mentioned Adium as their favorite Jabber client, which is one of
>> the reasons contacting your project.
>>
>> You might be wondering what's the catch at this point, so we'll
>> tell you. The catch is that we're still a for-profit company and
>> can't write off donations unless we can legitimately expense it.
>> Our solution to this is asking for a link and mention of our
>> donation in return to any one of our portal sites. Links help our
>> search rankings and donations help quality projects, so we like to
>> think of this as win-win. We certainly don't require a front page
>> link, but somewhere unobtrusive (like the Community Links page)
>> would be fine.
>>
>> We certainly understand if you or your development team has qualms
>> about this type of donation requirement, which in case we do
>> understand if you'd rather not participate. On the other hand, we
>> will provide you information on the portal (in this instance, a
>> poker portal) and give you a chance to see if it is up to your
>> level of standards, as we certainly do not want your project to
>> link to a site you are not comfortable with. That is unfair to both
>> yourself and the search engines.
>>
>> If you are interested, please let me know and we can continue a
>> discussion. Otherwise, I do thank you for your time and thank you
>> for all your hard work on Adium.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hans F.
>>
>>
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