As the title mentions, it's almost time once again for us to renew our yearly lease on the servers which host the qb64phoenix.com forums and wiki. April 5th is when the bill comes due for the hamster feed that keeps the hamster healthy and running around it's wheel to keep the lights on around here, and our yearly costs are around $300.00 for the renewal.
This year, our Patreon has provided us a little over $100.00 in donations. (Next year, if folks continue to donate at the levels they are now, I'd expect to see the FULL cost of our renewal to be covered. We had several people sign up back in November and pledge donations via Patreon.) That leaves about $200.00 left over, which I'll be happy to personally cover if nobody else wants to step up and help out.
If you DO want to help cover this year's shortfall, you can:
1) Sign up on Patreon and join the recurring monthly donations of $3, $5, or $10! (I know, we ask for a LOT, when that tiny amount won't even pay for a large coffee at Starbucks once a month anymore.) https://www.patreon.com/user?u=86544769
2) If you're one of the folks who prefer to make a one a year donation, or a one-time donation, you can use Paypal and transfer the funds directly to me and I'll add them to help pay the server costs. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/smcneill1973
3) If you're really "Old School" (like several users of anything QBASIC-adjactent are), you can even MAIL me a check, money order, or US Dollars (if you trust the mail system enough to imagine that cash would get here safely) at:
Steve McNeill
230 McNeil Hill Road
Pilot, VA 24138
(And yes, they named the road after my family. They just spelt it wrong, as if you look close, it only has one "L" in it. Be careful of that as it can cause issues with cashiers checks and money orders and such.)
And that's basically the only ways we accept donations. Patreon, PayPal, or Direct. If those don't work for you, then it's just too much effort to steal your money... err... accept your generous donation!
You've got about 1 month guys, to get your donation in, if you're going to help cover our costs. After that, as I mentioned above, I'll personally cover whatever amount is lacking for us. I honestly don't mind paying these costs to keep everything up and going, but I do have to admit -- after the scare with my open heart surgery and my health and all, I'll be much happier once we get to the point where we're 100% covered in our donations. Next year, we *should* reach that point, as long as nothing changes and prices don't go up (which would be soooo surpising in this hyper-inflation world we're currently living in), and as long as nobody ends up dropping their Patreon subscription. (Which again, I can't blame anyone one bit if they do, with the prices of everything constantly going up and chipping away at everyone's disposable income.)
And while folks are here reading this, you might want to take a look at the PREVIOUS post in the announcement forums -- it's where all the really good stuff is: https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2469
This year, our Patreon has provided us a little over $100.00 in donations. (Next year, if folks continue to donate at the levels they are now, I'd expect to see the FULL cost of our renewal to be covered. We had several people sign up back in November and pledge donations via Patreon.) That leaves about $200.00 left over, which I'll be happy to personally cover if nobody else wants to step up and help out.
If you DO want to help cover this year's shortfall, you can:
1) Sign up on Patreon and join the recurring monthly donations of $3, $5, or $10! (I know, we ask for a LOT, when that tiny amount won't even pay for a large coffee at Starbucks once a month anymore.) https://www.patreon.com/user?u=86544769
2) If you're one of the folks who prefer to make a one a year donation, or a one-time donation, you can use Paypal and transfer the funds directly to me and I'll add them to help pay the server costs. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/smcneill1973
3) If you're really "Old School" (like several users of anything QBASIC-adjactent are), you can even MAIL me a check, money order, or US Dollars (if you trust the mail system enough to imagine that cash would get here safely) at:
Steve McNeill
230 McNeil Hill Road
Pilot, VA 24138
(And yes, they named the road after my family. They just spelt it wrong, as if you look close, it only has one "L" in it. Be careful of that as it can cause issues with cashiers checks and money orders and such.)
And that's basically the only ways we accept donations. Patreon, PayPal, or Direct. If those don't work for you, then it's just too much effort to steal your money... err... accept your generous donation!
You've got about 1 month guys, to get your donation in, if you're going to help cover our costs. After that, as I mentioned above, I'll personally cover whatever amount is lacking for us. I honestly don't mind paying these costs to keep everything up and going, but I do have to admit -- after the scare with my open heart surgery and my health and all, I'll be much happier once we get to the point where we're 100% covered in our donations. Next year, we *should* reach that point, as long as nothing changes and prices don't go up (which would be soooo surpising in this hyper-inflation world we're currently living in), and as long as nobody ends up dropping their Patreon subscription. (Which again, I can't blame anyone one bit if they do, with the prices of everything constantly going up and chipping away at everyone's disposable income.)
And while folks are here reading this, you might want to take a look at the PREVIOUS post in the announcement forums -- it's where all the really good stuff is: https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2469