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diff donate.md @ 60:ca344ecdfffa kai
Overhaul donate page. Remove Bitcoin stuff.
author | Kai T. Ohlhus <k.ohlhus@gmail.com> |
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date | Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:01:37 +0200 |
parents | 171ca967fcc9 |
children | 5caa2af27956 |
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--- a/donate.md Tue Oct 11 16:00:52 2016 +0200 +++ b/donate.md Tue Oct 11 16:01:37 2016 +0200 @@ -4,24 +4,26 @@ menu: true --- -{% include donate.html %} +Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise. +Your contributions help to ensure that Octave will continue to improve. +Please donate at the -Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise. Your -contributions help to ensure that Octave will continue to -improve. +- **[Free Software Foundation donation page][1]** -If you are already an Octave user and would like to see it improve -more rapidly, then please donate so that we can spend more of our -time working on Octave. If we could raise as little as -$300,000/year, we could pay several key developers to work full -time on Octave. Given even the most conservative estimate of the -number of users of Octave, this amount could easily be reached if -every user contributed the cost of a few lattes. +If you are already an Octave user and would like to see it improve more rapidly, +then please donate so that we can spend more of our time working on Octave. +If we could raise as little as $300,000/year, +we could pay several key developers to work full time on Octave. +Given even the most conservative estimate of the number of users of Octave, +this amount could easily be reached if every user contributed the cost of +a few lattes. If your company has a budget for numerical computing tools, -consider spending 10% (or more!) of that on Octave. Do you expect -Octave to improve on a $0 budget while the proprietary tools are -well-funded by your license fees? +consider spending 10% (or more!) of that on Octave. +Do you expect Octave to improve on a $0 budget +while the proprietary tools are well-funded by your license fees? -Consider <a href="commercial-support.html">hiring someone</a> to -implement the specific features you need. +Consider [hiring someone][2] to implement the specific features you need. + +[1]: https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=10 +[2]: commercial-support.html