~Nathan R. Hale
Rom. 12:2
>
> The donation page is up and running at
http://musescore.org/donate>
>
> Thomas Bonte wrote:
>>
>> This post is to inform everyone involved in the MuseScore project about an
>> upcoming donation campaign.
>>
>> As stated in
>>
http://n2.nabble.com/MuseScore.org-to-the-next-level%3A-sponsoring---fund-raising-tp2844089p2844089.html>> a previous mailing list post , the hosting costs for musescore.org are
>> getting quite significant. Like many other open source projects, we can
>> solve this problem by setting up a page on musescore.org and call for
>> financial donations. A
http://www.paypal.com Paypal account will be
>> setup to accept the incoming donations and used to cover the hosting
>> costs.
>>
>> For questions or remarks, don't hesitate to reply to the mailing list or
>> drop a direct email to
http://www.musescore.org/user/3/contact Werner or
>>
http://www.musescore.org/user/5/contact myself .
>>
>>
>> Thomas Bonte wrote:
>>>
>>> MuseScore.org started as a very basic community website 8 months ago.
>>> Today it's the home of the rapidly growing MuseScore user and developer
>>> community, attracting around 1000 unique visitors a day and serving
>>> 170.000 monthly pageviews. Needless to say this is quite a success, even
>>> more when considering this is all accomplished by volunteer work.
>>>
>>> The
http://musescore.org/en/forum MuseScore forum is getting more and
>>> more lively every day. While David Bolton is still flooding the forum
>>> with his never ending support, we have also seen many new people step in
>>> and helping others out with their question and problems.
>>>
>>> The
http://musescore.org/en/project/issues issue tracker which was
>>> installed a few months ago, is now used actively used as a bridge between
>>> the MuseScore users and developers. The
>>>
http://musescore.org/en/project/issues/statistics tracker statistics page
>>> indicates that the MuseScore development is in a very healthy state,
>>> mostly thanks to the lead developer Werner Schweer who killing bugs and
>>> adding new features on an almost daily basis.
>>>
>>> Also, let's not forget the
http://musescore.org/en/handbook MuseScore
>>> documentation which is currently available in 7 languages. Many people
>>> have been involved in the collaborative handbook writing and translating,
>>> facilitated by the excellent
http://drupal.org Drupal software which is
>>> used to run the MuseScore.org website.
>>>
>>> Now, lets get down to the topic of this post: this success story comes
>>> with a price. Currently MuseScore.org is running on standard shared
>>> hosting, but this is not going to cut it very long anymore and soon it
>>> will have to move to VPS hosting. Added to this comes the fact that the
>>> MuseScore.org search engine is currently delegated to
>>>
http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-search Acquia Hosted Search
>>> which is currently offered in a free beta but that trial period is coming
>>> to an end.
>>>
>>> With this post, I direct myself first to the MuseScore community. If
>>> anyone has experience with sponsoring or fund raising, don't hesitate to
>>> jump in. Also, if you want to share thoughts or your own personal
>>> experiences with bringing an open source project to the next level, feel
>>> free to share it.
>>>
>>
>>
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