Tender, love and care
I like spending time maintaining the site, interacting with you all and nurturing this slowly but steadily growing community. I have really boosted my tech skills adding new features along the way and automating the support as much as possible.
Recurring expenses
Apart from the time and effort I am happily investing there are also some recurring costs to host the site (greenhost.nl) and acquire some of the supporting services. So far I have been able to keep the all-in costs (hosting, back-up, domain, mail-service) to 280 a year.
Support donations
To cover the expenses made, I figured it would make sense to offer you guys the option to make a support donation. It is fully voluntary and you can choose to donate 5, 10 or 20 euro, whenever you feel like it, once or multiple times a year, or never at all. All up to you.
Not for profit
Should there be any surplus arising from this I will be taking suggestions from the community on what to spend it on. Fund a nice get-to-gether? Batch translation of older posts? Sportina banners to fly on our boats or perhaps better yet, donate to the KNRM (royal dutch rescue brigade).
How to donate
Scan any of the EU-SEPA QR codes below with bank’s your mobile app. Validate the data and wire the money.
If that doesn’t work you can create a manual transaction with the details on the QR code. This will also allow you to donate hundreds of euros if you like.
Not in EU/on SEPA? Brexit=brexit but you can still enjoy the site!
I will check on a regular basis, but do reply to this post to let know you made a contribution!
Goodies!
Contributors will be rewarded with ‘member’ status which will give you:
a super cool badge on your avatar
access to the empty member’s lounge (please don’t tell anyone)
Hi Koen, uiteraard een donatie overgemaakt. Ik heb al veel tips en info kunnen vinden c.q. uitwisselen dankzij dit forum. En laat het voorjaar maar snel beginnen.
Beste Koen, ik weet niet of mijn bericht van zojuist is over gekomen, Dus nog maar een keer…
Hartelijk dank voor je werk en voorfinancieren van kosten voor de website. Ben ik erg blij mee! Uiteraard draag ik bij aan de kosten. Goed dat je dit expliciet hebt gevraagd. Mag je gerust nog eens doen.
Veel zeilplezier, groet vanaf De Burd in Grou
Gentle reminder! If you like the site and want to support it being continued a donation would be much appreciated!
Yearly cost is about 280 all in. I am not making profits thats for sure haha. Your support is very much appreciated. Could it run somewhere slightly cheaper? Sure, but that would be another project, time and effort and I like the fact that it runs om greenhosting.nl.
Support received so far:
2022: €110,-
2023: €135,-
2024: €40,-
2025: €40,-
2026: €50,-
Total: €375,- out of ~€1120,-
