New Server Drive - donation and prize thread (Final total: $13,310!)

[Asmo]

Thanks for the reply, Piratecat!
I´ll have to check this out with my bank monday next week.
I had hoped that a website could host a donation drive for a short period of time like Expeditious Retreat Press did last year. :\
I´m extremely impressed with all the good people of EnWorld, keep up the good work!
Asmo

 

[fafhrd]

It seems that a rash of people have joined up for Community Supporter in addition to all the cash that's been sent in. I was wondering if the boom of CS money might lock in hosting costs and the goal levels could be reevaluated purely for hardware. I wasn't sure if this belongs here or in the technical thread. Feel free to move it if I erred.

And keep it comin!

 

[RedShirtNo5]

Here's another $25 into the pot. -RedShirt

 

[drothgery]

And another $50 PayPal'd from this quarter; I was pretty vocal in arguing that ENWorld should do something about their server issues after the last outage, so I figured I really should support their efforts to do so.

 

[Lord Zardoz]

Meh, why not.

I am bored. Unlike many of the posters to this board, I have a nearly retarded amount of disposable income. Even though I am far from wealthy, not owning a car or having any dependents and having a nice job is very useful towards having disposable income.

I will drop $50 Cdn on you via a cheque, as soon as I figure out the snail mail address to send to. I suppose you will be getting the benefit if the improved exchange rate for Cdn -> American dollars.

END COMMUNICATION

 

[SkidAce]

Re-upped my Community Supporter acount last month.

Donated $20 via Paypal today.

Been lurkering since the begining...this is the only site on the entire web I have ever even considered paying to support.

Keep up the good work.

 

[NTZ]

Dropped a check for $30 in the mail today. I'll bet PC gets quite a lot of mail next week! The mailman might wonder what's going on.

 

[Turanil]

Just wondering about this: there is many prizes in books (I mean: the printed ones) to be given to donators (if I understand well, or are they sold on ebay or what not to help raise funds?). But if they are sent to donators, who pay for the shipping costs? Not Enworld I guess? If I were to get a book, I don't want that Enworld pay for the shipping, or it would use my donation entirely (very modest donation, shipping costs to Europe). So in this case, I would prefer the book sold on ebay and the benefit added to the whole fund raising. I will gladly get any pdf though...

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Lord Zardoz: This announcement should have the address you're looking for...

Nick

 

[Piratecat]

Actually, it depends somewhat on the publisher and the prize. Some publishers donated money specifically for shipping their books, some will ship books to the prize-winners directly, and some we'll eat the shipping on. Tell you what; when we're done and we distribute prizes, we'll look at what you've won and figure out the best solution.