Most managers won't know what a € (euro) is. I'd suggest putting
($1000)
after it.
If that is a problem you could put (Euro) or EU:
Site license for less than 50 hosts: EU€ 100/year
Site license for less than 50 hosts: € 100/year (Euro)
It needs to be kept as Euros as that is the currency.
cheers, Phil
On 6/10/2011 at 8:19 AM, in message
<user-c3dd69b427f2@xymon.invalid>,
Josh
Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Most managers won't know what a € (euro) is. I'd suggest putting
($1000)
after it.
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
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Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Henrik Størner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've been contacted off-list by a long-time Xymon user, who had
some
thoughts about how companies can help the Xymon project along by
donating
some money to the project. We discussed this a bit, and he suggested
that I
float my ideas on the mailing list for input - and gave me
permission to
quote from his e-mails.
He wrote:
"I realise (along with others) that you put a huge effort into xymon
and
given that our company uses the application extensively I would like
to push
to get the company to donate something on a regular basis. It may
not be big
but that’s something we can work on over time.
"I've been involved in another open source project for a while now
and what
they did was to create an association based in Germany to which
payments can
be given to a dedicated bank account. This model works for our
company from
a donation point of view but I was just wondering if you had any
plans to do
something similar?"
After thinking about this for a while, I think I can see some issues
that
companies might have with donating to the project via PayPal, which
is
currently the only option. There was another user recently who sent
me a
nice donation, but apparently it felt awkward enough for them to do
so via
PayPal that they contacted me directly afterwards, to make sure that
the
donation really did come through.
The recent discussion about "Big environment" deployments of Xymon
clearly
shows that there are some places where Xymon is *really* used a lot.
So
maybe there are more companies who could be convinced to support
Xymon - me
- with donations.
So what I came up with was this:
"I do have a company registered here in Denmark, so perhaps I
should
consider using that for accepting corporate donations. Then I can
provide genuine invoices, VAT-numbers etc - all the stuff that
companies
normally expect when they buy software. And they can transfer the
amount to
an official bank account with a proper IBAN bank account number
..."
And to make this a bit more formalised, I've added this page to the
Xymon
website: http://www.xymon.com/license/
It is important for me to emphasize that Xymon is, and always will
be,
available free of charge under an open source license - regardless
of how or
where it is being used. So when I write about "buying a license" to
use
Xymon, it is only because that is the kind of language most
manager-types
can understand (hmm, I sincerely hope I didn't offend anyone with
that
blatant generalisation). You will not be required to buy a license -
but it
gives you a really nice feeling :-)
I'd appreciate any thoughs you have about this, and if You'd rather
discuss
it off-list just mail me directly.
Regards,
Henrik
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