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So, just a follow up. According to matt, we got around $2,000 USD right now in the PBC overnight, and there are still more payments processing. I paid the Linode bill this morning. So, funding problem: solved. We should be set for the foreseeable future as far as money goes!
Seriously guys, you stepped up, and I am thankful. Since I'm here, a quick update on what's going on: Right now, we're mostly just waiting for paperwork to go through as far as handing the site to a newly-created, not-for-profit. It's slow work and I'm not directly involved, but I've seen that there has been a fair number of articles on the subject so I'm pretty happy that everyone is aware of what's going on.
I could write more, but I think I'm going to keep this short and sweet for now. Once I have a final total, I'll post it.
- N
Addition: We have been asked if people can donate anonymously without having an account. The answer is "Yes". Click the subscription link and then make a gift subscription to another account (It defaults to NCommander but you can choose any account). Pay via stripe using an anonymous username.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday March 07 2024, @05:53PM
Here's my modest proposal to make money off "advertising".
Yesterday I bought a one-month subscription in honor of our dear departed buddy MDC. And that's just fine. However, I have another way to fundraise a couple bucks that is intriguing to consider.
MDC is already present in the existing list of quotes at the bottom of the page. Which right now for me reads "How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a lightbulb? It depends on how many bad ones he brought with him." Obviously a survivor of the 80s VAX era, but I digress.
Someone with an infinite amount of spare time could write an auction market or similar fintech such that I could bid $4 to promote an existing MDC quote to the bottom of the page for a day/week/month or "X-zillion impressions" or whatever. Someone who doesn't like that could outbid me, theoretically, I suppose. Or they could toss in their own $4 to promote the same MDC quote.
It's "advertising" in a sense, but only advertising quotes already present in the quote file. Of course, we'd have to make sure nobody adds quotes containing current corporate advertising slogans. No interest in seeing "I'm lovin it" at the bottom of the screen advertising stuff that technically isn't even food, although Google's "don't be evil" with the "don't" crossed through would be minimally funny.
Probably neither my best idea nor my dumbest idea, but it is a mildly interesting to think about idea. I guess now that I'm getting old enough, I'm turning into the "good idea fairy" that everyone hated when we were young admins/programmers, LOL.