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

[Jeffrey Melloy]

Could toss a link to SubEthaEdit and co on there, too.  I think it's  
a nice idea.

Jeff

On Aug 17, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:

> 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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