Re: Idea for pearweb

Caught a bit of this - Im not sure centralized paypal is going to do an amazing amount of good..(somebody has to maintain it etc..) - however from having put up paypal dontations on my site (and being very gratefull for those that have donated).. I would suggest a few things if somebody has time to do them: have a "donate to the author" as an alternative to the wishlist thing. get the authorlists, wishlists and donate buttons in the manual on the related page (more work for peardoc2 :) I like the comment about most people only donating when something goes wrong and they need it fixing - there's alot to be said for carefully placed bugs. :) Regards Alan Martin Jansen wrote:

On Fri Jan 24, 2003 at 04:0656PM +0100, Michael Bretterklieber wrote:

The FreeBSD Project does this. They have a FreeBSD Foundation wich collects donations, and they then give the money (or hardware) to the developers. The FreeBSD Foundation is a non profit organization and therefore they don't pay so much taxes.

Please don't overestimate PEAR's position in comparison to other open source projects: FreeBSD plays a much more important role nowadays and they have really good reasons for having such a donation system. Having such a system for PEAR will make the project look bigheaded, since we simply aren't playing in the same league than Linux, BSD and a few other projects yet.