[imp] Fundraising: IMP Multiple Accounts Feature

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>:

> Em 05-08-2013 16:40, Michael M Slusarz escreveu:
>
>> The fundraiser page can be found here:
>>
>> http://tilt.tc/Evs2

Just wanted to give a quick update to the list.

As of Thursday afternoon, we are now ~$500 short of funding this  
feature.  A giant thank you to the ten contributors so far.

I'm pleased to announce that SAPO (http://www.sapo.pt/), a long-time  
supporter of both Horde and open-source software in general, has  
provided $1,000 towards the goal.  (Due to details that will interest  
nobody, this funding appears to be coming from me.  I wish it was as  
easy as pledging money to yourselves :) )

So this means we are 80+% of the way to the goal.  If you were on the  
fence about contributing - I hope this will provide the necessary  
incentive in order to allow this useful feature to become a part of IMP.

> I think it needs to be constantly advertised in order to succeed.  
> I've been sharing it on twitter, facebook etc. and I ask all of you  
> to share as well, even if you are not willing to contribute with  
> money.

Agreed.  Thanks to some of the other Horde dev's, we've advertised via  
our social media streams.  Considering we only need another $500, even  
a small amount of advertisement will hopefully be all we need to fund  
the rest.

> I would also suggest it to be announced on the horde list, since I  
> believe there are some users who subscribe to that list and not to  
> this one.

Good idea, although apologies for the cross-post for those subscribed  
to multiple lists.

horde at lists.horde.org subscribers: you can look at  
http://lists.horde.org/archives/imp/Week-of-Mon-20130805/055226.html  
for further details regarding this fundraiser goal.

> For those who can contribute, please, help. Maybe this is a great  
> opportunity to give something in retunr for using good quality  
> software for years without spending any money.

Well... the current campaign really supports me much more than the  
Horde Project in general :)  Granted - the intellectual property  
produced as a result of this will be openly available to everyone (via  
the GPL) so the benefits are community-wide.

But this platform does allow me an opportunity to remind everyone that  
if there are features you would like to see in Horde, that a fantastic  
way of supporting the project is to fund new features.  Although I  
can't speak for the other developers, *I* much prefer this approach  
than the "tip-jar" approach.  The latter rests on our laurels; the  
former provides a way to make the software even better.  See  
http://www.horde.org/services for further information.

Thanks everyone,

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]