Fund raising

[Harrison]

Hi everyone. It's that time of year again.

The classicamiga forum server is due for renewal in November. The renewal price is roughly £100 for two years. Therefore I need to ask if everyone can help out by donating towards this cost. It doesn't matter how much as every little will help go towards paying for the server to be renewed.

Thank you, and I hope you can help. :)

[Tiago]

Done.
15 Pounds transfer thru paypal tiagolobodias@gmail.com account

keep up the good work mate!

[Harrison]

Thanks Tiago. Much appreciated. :thumbs:

[Puni/Void]

Hi everyone. It's that time of year again.

The classicamiga forum server is due for renewal in November. The renewal price is roughly £100 for two years. Therefore I need to ask if everyone can help out by donating towards this cost. It doesn't matter how much as every little will help go towards paying for the server to be renewed.

Thank you, and I hope you can help. :)

A donation will be on its way pretty soon. :)

[Buleste]

I'll try to get a donation to you soon.

[v85rawdeal]

As will I. After all, without this place I wouldn't have a life...

Hold on, isn't that a double-misnomer???

[J T]

After payday I'll send some money over too :)

[Teho]

Will send something late next week. Would do it now, but I've got a big expense coming early next week and need to know exactly how high that is first.

[Harrison]

Thanks everyone. :)

[Sharingan]

I'll see what I can do :thumbs:

[StuKeith]

IF £10 is ok ill send it over next week or so when paid!

[Puni/Void]

20£ has been donated. :) Keep up the good work!

[Harrison]

20£ has been donated. :) Keep up the good work!

Thank you :thumbs:


IF £10 is ok ill send it over next week or so when paid!

That would be great. Thanks :)

BTW, if we have some money over from the donations after paying for the server I will put it towards paying the renewal price for the next year's worth of vBulletin updates ($40 per year).

[Loftus]

have sent a little something. not much but hope it helps! :)

[Harrison]

@Teho and Loftus

Thank you both for the donations. Much appreciated.

We are now over half way to the target needed to pay for the server. Once I receive everyone else's donations I should have enough to pay for it. :)

[Demon Cleaner]

As usual you get my monthly donation. How long am I already doing this? Almost 2 years I think?

[Harrison]

@DC. The monthly donations from yourself and Teho really do help a lot towards the monthly running costs of the main site server. :thumbs:

As for the forum server, it only needs to be paid every two years and so the costs for the forum running costs are much lower than the main site, and separate to it. Plus now we have a owned license for the forum software the cost is lower than it used to be. At the moment the forum is costing $166.80 for the next two years hosting costs, plus $40 for each year's additional forum software updates. So the total cost is going to be $246.80, which converts to about £100. Not too bad for the next two years costs. :)

[TiredOfLife]

Get paid a week on Friday, will send something on the Saturday after.
(Will be out Friday :D:guinness:)

[Harrison]

Cheers TiredOfLife :thumbs:

[Harrison]

I have to pay the server hosting costs at the end of next week, so if anyone is still due to send some donations towards these costs can you please try to send them before next Friday 14th.

Thank you again to everyone who has donated. It will help out greatly towards the renewal costs. :thumbs:

[Buleste]

Thanks for reminding me to donate. I'd have forgotten otherwise. £10.00 in the account from me.

[Harrison]

Thank you :thumbs:

[TiredOfLife]

Donated but had no money in the Paypal account so it's going to be an echeque.
Sorry about that.

[Harrison]

That's great. I got the echeque email alert. Not a problem. All donations are very helpful and I now nearly have the full amount to cover the complete forum server cost for the next two years, plus the cost of vBulletin updates for the next year. Great stuff. :D

Thanks everyone :thumbs:

[Tiago]

More 5 pounds to CA

[demusse]

how do i contribute?

[Harrison]

From the main classicamiga.com homepage there is a donate button on the right hand side of the page. Or you can donate directly via Paypal to my email address dave@classicamiga.com Both methods use that account.

And thanks for the donation Tiago. :thumbs:

[demusse]

a fiver comming your way !

[Harrison]

Thank you. Every little helps with our running costs. :)

[Harrison]

Fund raiding time again.

vBulletin 4 is about to be launched. With version 4 they are changing their licensing structure. At the moment with out current vB license we hold an owned license which means we are allowed to host and run a vBulletin site forever without needing to pay any more money. However each 12 months you have to pay an additional smalll fee, currently about £30, to receive a further 12 months worth of updates to vB.

Now though there will be no 12 monthly fees to continue receiving updates. Instead it will be a one-time payment for vB4.x to receive all updates within the 4.x lifetime of the produce, which is great.

However for existing vB customers this means that the licenses need to be upgraded to a full vB4 license. This is going to be quite an expensive upgrade cost of about $250 for the new license. However until 30th October the vBulletin team are offering a special promotional upgrade price of just $130 (£85) for us to upgrade the classicamiga license to the new vB4 Publishing Suite.

The publishing suite adds a full CMS (content management system) and community blogs to the forum software. The CMS is looking especially powerful and could be very useful for classicamiga. It works on an article system very similar to Joomla, and it would be great to move some of the current stuff out of the main Joomla site, and into this new CMS. Things like news could work better, as could articles and tutorials.

The great thing about the CMS is that anyone posting a normal forum thread can have it promoted into a CMS article, therefore made into a full webpage. And dedicated forum threads can be created and linked to specific articles in the CMS, so members can discuss an article in the forum. Much nicer than just having comments under articles.

I might even think the CMS could be a better direction instead of the current Wiki as it would allow more people to work on its content easier. However, that is something to look at once we get our hands on vB3 Publishing suite.

So now to the fund raising bit. If any of you can help me out towards the cost of this vB license upgrade to vB4 Publishing Suite which will cost a total of £85 that would be great.

We only have until the 30th October, so just over a week, to take up this offer, otherwise te cost will go up to $250 which is quite a bit more.

All donations to help with this would be greatly received.

And in upgrading the site to vB4 I have many ideas to get the activity on the site increasing again and making it much more active.

[Teho]

Sent £20. It's for a good cause, right? ;)

[Harrison]

Thanks mate. :thumbs:

I will probably upgrade the license this weekend so we don't miss out on it.

If any of you are interested in seeing what the new vB4 will be like, have a look at the main http://www.vbulletin.com website. They have added a features list, plus some screenshots showing how the CMS and new forums will work. It all looks very polished and nice to use. I can't wait to get my hands on the final product when it is released.

[Demon Cleaner]

That looks indeed very nice.

[Tiago]

15 Pounds in your paypal account.
Keep up the good work
:)

[Harrison]

Thanks mate. Much appreciated. :)

[Puni/Void]

Looks very interesting and promising, Harrison. Donated £10 a couple of minutes ago, so the cash should be with you soon. :thumbs:

[Harrison]

Great stuff. Thank you. :)

[Harrison]

Thanks everyone for donating. We have managed to so far raise £45 towards the £85 total. Leaving £40 to raise by this Friday to upgrade before the offer expires.

If anyone else can help donate towards the total it would be great. :)

[burns flipper]

Fiver from me, from the sale of my A1200.

[Harrison]

That's great. Thanks mate.

[Tiago]

More 5 Pounds,
next month i will do it again :-) keep up the good work mate!

[Harrison]

Thank you. :thumbs:

[Tiago]

More 10 pounds.

Keep up the good work!

[Submeg]

Just sent through 20 Pounds, seeing as I haven't gotten around to it! Hopefully it will help when upgrading in the near future :)

[Harrison]

Thanks mate. Very much appeciated. :thumbs:

[Tiago]

Just send 5 pounds.
Can't give more, Portugal as you know is in deep shxx... :blink:
Keep up the good work

[Harrison]

Thank you. Every little helps.

I hope the recession isn't hitting you too bad personally. Isn't good anywhere at the moment.

[Tiago]

i lost +/- 1600 euros per year, direct downgrade in salary :mad:, but everything is expensive, so i have less money with less power to buy anything.
Today government will announce new measures... again...:no: someday they will not have anything else to cut, so probably they will cut us an arm, or a leg... :blink:

[Harrison]

Sorry to hear you had to take a pay cut. Not good.