[imp] Fundraising: IMP Multiple Accounts Feature
azurIt
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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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