That's what management is for - working out the fiddling details, like currency exchange... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:
We can't pay in USD?
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Oct 5, 2011 9:46 PM, "Phil Crooker" <Phil.Crooker at orix.com.au> wrote:
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 <CAN9qwJ9P4AwxyANJnMpFNJxYFjPYUiUHG0oD+MW28q_jvNmgZQ at mail.gmail.com>, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: Most managers won't know what a € (euro) is. I'd suggest putting ($1000) after it.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> 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.
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