[imp] Fundraising: IMP Multiple Accounts Feature

azurIt azurit at pobox.sk
Sat Aug 10 18:45:11 UTC 2013


> Predmet: Re: [imp] Fundraising: IMP Multiple Accounts Feature
>
>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



Michael,

will it be possible to connect to several different servers or all e-mail accounts must be on the same server? I believe you are not planning such meaningless limitations but i better ask.

azur


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