deskthority - Donations

27 Apr 2012, 23:19

What donations are used for
Donations made to deskthority are used to cover hosting and other costs (maybe in the future the members could choose to use funds to finance certain events, group buys or custom keyboards). Deskthority is a non-profit collection of keyboard enthusiasts, so all is payed for by the community and everything is returned to the community in the end, such as the hosting and availability of our website. All donations are listed in this topic for transparency.

Donate and get...
In return for your donation of at least 10 EUR, if you want you will get a deskthority email forward address (yourname at deskthority dot net to an address of your choice) and/or a custom title (mine is Wild Duck).

Donation instructions
To make a donation, send a PM to group "Donations" (compose a PM, click on group Donations and click the Add button) with the following info:

Whether you want to pay by IBAN wire transfer (free for lots of parts of Europe, but check your bank) or by paypal.
If you want an email address and/or custom title, please state them (in case of an email address also give an address to forward emails to).
Let us know if we can use your member name in the donations list below, or if you want to be listed as "Anonymous".

We will reply with the IBAN or paypal payment info.

EDIT: There's now a paypal donation page here.

Add some comment to your payment like "for deskthority by your member name" (so the receiving end doesn't regard it as a spontaneous, personal gift from a random admirer).
We'll send you a confirmation when your payment is received, and update this post.

List of donations:

All uncovered costs payed for by the deskthority administrators (hosting and domain costs)
50 EUR from Anonymous, 26 April 2012
25 EUR from Anonymous, 30 April 2012
75 EUR from Game Theory, 1 May 2012
50 dollar from bhtooefr, 1 May 2012
50 EUR from Anonymous, 1 May 2012
50 EUR from 002, 1 May 2012
201 EUR from Anonymous, 6 June 2012
20 dollar from ripster, 13 Jun 2012
20 dollar from 002, 20 Jul 2012
35 dollar from longweight, 29 Jul 2012
20 dollar from 002, 15 Aug 2012
103 EUR from the Mrinterface Switch Sample Bags, 2 Sep 2012
163.07 dollar from 002, 5 Sep 2012
24.84 dollar from Grond, 13 Dec 2012
21.28 dollar from aggiejy, 14 Dec 2012
38.54 dollar from jdcarpe, 22 Dec 2012
18.92 dollar from Phetto, 28 Dec 2012
47.75 dollar from fossala, 31 Dec 2012
31.41 dollar from Anonymous, 1 Jan 2013
28.53 dollar from daedalus, 30 Jan 2013
10 EUR from The_Ed, 1 Feb 2013
7.39 dollar from RougeRambo, 4 Feb 2013
40 EUR from Half-Saint, 19 Mar 2013
23.72 dollar from Anonymous, 20 Mar 2013
14.11 dollar from Halverson, 1 Apr 2013

These are the amounts we have received, Paypal or bank costs may have been subtracted. Thanks for your donations!

Spending:

400 dollar for Wingnut keycaps by clickclack (trophies for our yearly deskthority awards), May 14 2013. This covers part of the costs of 40 keycaps, the other part is covered by the deskthority admin.

27 Apr 2012, 23:50

Just add a PayPal donate button somewhere. I'd be willing to donate a small amount, too.

28 Apr 2012, 21:36

PayPal already took enough money, so a better way should be found if a formal donation system materializes.

28 Apr 2012, 22:16

JBert wrote:PayPal already took enough money, so a better way should be found if a formal donation system materializes.

Just send webwit all the money, you saved not ordering any key caps from Round 4.

No formal system needed for that.

28 Apr 2012, 22:19

And your keyboards and keycaps. Alternatively your firstborn.

28 Apr 2012, 22:27

webwit wrote:And your keyboards and keycaps. Alternatively your firstborn.

Don't get the point with the firstborn, but if you have some storage space, I could send you some keyboards ...

28 Apr 2012, 23:27

I would like to donate but I only have Paypal.
If there is some alternative option that can also be used by people outside Europe, then I'd be happy to register/use that instead.

29 Apr 2012, 00:11

IIRC PayPal pretty well covers non-Asian countries, which is IIRC the main audience of this forum, although it does have issues with them arbitrarily freezing accounts.

Wire transfer works for Europe, but the moment you say "wire transfer" to someone in the US, they think of 419 scams, and they're horrendously expensive here.

29 Apr 2012, 00:14

We'll cover both IBAN wire transfers and paypal. Possibly not a paypal donations button, I have some bad experience with that (see post above), but simply paypal gift payments.

EDIT: Updated OP.

29 Apr 2012, 06:35

Maybe its because I am a newly registered user but I cannot add a group called "Donations" as a to on a PM. Tells me the "The requested users to be added do not exist."

29 Apr 2012, 06:49

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29 Apr 2012, 16:23

The "Groups:" box and the "Add [BCC]" button do not show up for me in Chrome 18.0.1025.162 m or IE 9.06.
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002 thank you for the clear photo. It matched what I expected from the OP. I am still wondering if its because of my newness and low post count. If so the group box and Donations will eventually show up and Ill donate.

29 Apr 2012, 16:58

It's visible for me in both Chrome and IE9. The whole Recipients box looks weird in your picture.

13 Jun 2012, 20:46

Donated, Starting slow at $20 USA (yes, I know, Mexican pesos are worth more...). Will double ASAP if iMav ever returns my May GH donation. Otherwise will be on a PayAsIpost plan to be safe.

Also asked for deskthority email which I will use to register at Geekhack for the lulz.

04 Jul 2012, 17:18

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:Just add a PayPal donate button somewhere. I'd be willing to donate a small amount, too.

Good idea, i think its better to get a small donation as no donation.
But dont use paypal, i hate them.

29 Jul 2012, 15:42

Donated via the paypal button

29 Jul 2012, 18:33

Thanks! I'll update the list later with donations received from paypal.

EDIT: Updated list.

02 Sep 2012, 12:59

Added donations from the Mrinterface Switch Sample Bags.

20 Oct 2012, 05:44

It must be about time for an update to the donation list?

13 Dec 2012, 16:13

I just donated 20€.

(Sorry, I forgot to write anything in the comment of the payment)

14 Dec 2012, 19:28

I just donated $22.22 via form... forgot to put "donation" too, sorry.

14 Dec 2012, 20:21

Thanks guys! Updated donations list (minus costs paypal subtracted).

17 Dec 2012, 06:18

For what it's worth, I run the PayPal donations: It tells me Purpose: Deskthority so I know that means I need to PM webwit with an email address (or username) and an amount. If you don't include your username that makes it difficult if you don't use the same email address here.

31 Dec 2012, 13:16

Donated $50, $5 was something that I got from RougeRanger/RougeRambo/RougeR and he just said donate $5 to here for it.

31 Dec 2012, 13:19

fossala wrote: RougeRanger

20 Mar 2013, 09:47

I made a donation of 40€ via bank transfer on 18.3.2013 which came from Phantom MX keychain sales.

Cheers

20 Mar 2013, 13:12

Received, thanks!

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