From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:07:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: First draft of a "Donating" entry. To be polished tomorrow.
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First draft of a "Donating" entry. To be polished tomorrow.
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diff --git a/doc/source/faq.sgml b/doc/source/faq.sgml
index 5e4166f0..cbe5dbd8 100644
--- a/doc/source/faq.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/faq.sgml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
                 This file belongs into
                 ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
                 
- $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.55 2009/02/19 02:20:21 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.56 2009/02/19 17:05:05 fabiankeil Exp $
 
  Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
  See LICENSE.
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
  </subscript>
 </pubdate>
 
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.55 2009/02/19 02:20:21 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.56 2009/02/19 17:05:05 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
 
 <!--
 
@@ -492,27 +492,44 @@ warranty? Registration?</title>
  </para>
 </sect3>
 
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jointeam-money"><title>Contribute!</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="donating"><title>Donating</title>
 <para>
- We, of course, welcome donations and could use money for domain registering,
- buying software to test <application>Privoxy</application> with, and, of course,
- for regular world-wide get-togethers (hahaha). If you enjoy the software and feel
- like helping us with a donation, just <ulink
- url="mailto: ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">drop us a note</ulink>
- and get your name on the list of contributors.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is developed by unpaid volunteers
+ and thus our current running costs are pretty low. Nevertheless, we
+ have plans that will cost money in the future. We would like to get
+ this money through donations made by our users.
 </para>
-</sect3>
 
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jointeam-software"><title>Software</title>
 <para>
- If you are a vendor of a web-related software like a browser, web server
- or proxy, and would like us to ensure that <application>Privoxy</application>
- runs smoothly with your product, you might consider supplying us with a
- copy or license. We can't, however, guarantee that we will fix all potential
- compatibility issues as a result.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> has therefore become an associated
+ project of <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/">Software in the Public
+ Interest</ulink>, which allows us to receive tax-deductible donations
+ in most western countries. Before donating you should probably read on,
+ though, to learn what we want your money for.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ First of all we intend to transfer our domain to SPI to make sure
+ there's no single point of failure and the bill gets paid and the
+ site keeps running even if a some of the currently active developers
+ were to suddenly disappear for a while.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ We would also like to spend some money on more reliable hosting,
+ on hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
+ keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test on,
+ and on technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
+ or to improve their knowledge in general.
 </para>
-</sect3>
 
+<para>
+ If you enjoy our software and feel like helping out with a donation,
+ please have a look at
+ <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
+ to see what the options are. Small donations help too.
+<para>
+</sect3>
 
 </sect2>
 
@@ -2919,6 +2936,9 @@ browsing has slowed to a crawl. What gives? </title>
  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
 
 $Log: faq.sgml,v $
+Revision 2.56  2009/02/19 17:05:05  fabiankeil
+Explain slowness when build with Gentoo's portage.
+
 Revision 2.55  2009/02/19 02:20:21  hal9
 Make some links in seealso conditional. Man page is now privoxy only links.