Posts Tagged ‘donation call’

Update on donations (and more)

Monday, January 18th, 2010

I’m no good at writing long posts, so here is a simple list of latest updates:

  • Donation drive continues – so far the donors sent £62 (which is roughly 10% of our target). This is a great result for a quiet week without new releases – like the last one was!
    And huge thank you to everyone who donated! :-)
  • In the other news, Beta 3 of FuturixImager “S” is postponed for a week – I started working on too many things at the same time and could not finish everything for the yesterday’s deadline. This delay should not affect final release though, as I’ve included some recovery time in the schedule.

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Call for donations (updated)

Monday, January 11th, 2010

I’ve been doing some accounting on Sunday and after fruitless attempts to optimise my future spending I feel that I don’t have much choice but to call for help from the users of my software :-|

As you may have guessed while FuturixImager is free for the public – it is not free for me, the developer. I’m paying for the hosting, the development tools, the third-party code libraries, etc.
During 2009 I was unemployed for almost 6 months (until the mid-December) and my finances took a huge hit during that time – all while the costs of development and hosting grew (they are roughly 20% more than a year ago due to weak UK pound). It certainly does not help that I took a large salary cut when starting in my current job.

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