Myra Bronstein Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I pretty much said it in the Topic fields. Would the mods be open to accepting donations to help defray the cost of running this forum? Ideally it would accept paypal, so it'd be easy to donate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Woods Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I pretty much said it in the Topic fields. Would the mods be open to accepting donations to help defray the cost of running this forum? Ideally it would accept paypal, so it'd be easy to donate. John, Should you need assistance please let us know. johnw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I think: Certainly not for moderators. But the idea of of option that those who can, supporting the forum through some trust administered by Andy, contributing so that the forum can get the best security options and bandwidth so that it remains available to the world, by all means. IE not to ANY person in ANY way whatsoever, and not for any benefit of the donator in ANY way other than knowing anonymously (as far as the Forum admin is concerned, if people want to advertise their contributions themselves, that's their business) he/she contributes for the benefit of others, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antti Hynonen Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Hi Myra, This is a question, which in my opinion, would be best directed to the Forum Administrators; Andy Walker and John Simkin. They run the Forum at their own expense. The moderators (as far as I know) have no part in the financing aspect. In the past John Simkin has declined the offers/suggestions of setting up any membership fee type arrangements to cover the expenses of the Forum. Perhaps a PM to Andy and John would be in place, if you wish to pursue this thought. Who knows, their minds may have changed in this respect. Kind regards, Antti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen Turner Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I pretty much said it in the Topic fields. Would the mods be open to accepting donations to help defray the cost of running this forum? Ideally it would accept paypal, so it'd be easy to donate. Myra, John and Andy's take on this has always been that they want to keep the Forum non-contributary (in a financial sence )for members. Nice idea though. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Originally this forum was funded by BECTA. When they withdrew their support we tried using Google ads - these worked for a while but were sabotaged by an unknown user and google threw us out of the scheme. John's business Spartacus has funded the forum for the last couple of years and I use the small amout of revenue generated by the Ask.com advert and school supplies advert at the top to pay for emergencies like extra bandwidth, disk space etc in any given month. It would be relatively easy to set up the facility suggested and its a nice idea. However I don't really think its necessary at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I pretty much said it in the Topic fields. Would the mods be open to accepting donations to help defray the cost of running this forum? Ideally it would accept paypal, so it'd be easy to donate. Thanks for the offer but as Andy points out it is not necessary yet. However, it might be needed if Les Albiston carries out his threat to sue the forum. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=9029 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myra Bronstein Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 I pretty much said it in the Topic fields. Would the mods be open to accepting donations to help defray the cost of running this forum? Ideally it would accept paypal, so it'd be easy to donate. Thanks for the offer but as Andy points out it is not necessary yet. However, it might be needed if Les Albiston carries out his threat to sue the forum. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=9029 People are just queuing up to sue you John. Well, thanks everyone for the input. I just wanted to propose it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid Walker Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 I pretty much said it in the Topic fields. Would the mods be open to accepting donations to help defray the cost of running this forum? Ideally it would accept paypal, so it'd be easy to donate. Thanks for the offer but as Andy points out it is not necessary yet. However, it might be needed if Les Albiston carries out his threat to sue the forum. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=9029 Along with many other forum members, I really haven't wanted to get involved in a topic I know little about, but if Mr Albiston doesn't want an international campaign on his hands he'd be well advised not to sue this forum. Like most of the other forum members, I imagine, I'm more interested in catching bigger fish. But we do like posting to this forum - and would be 'disappointed' if it was thrown into turmoil for no good reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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