Jeru
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Thanks for the wonderful write-up, @Itms ! You definitely make a compelling case for attending FOSDEM this year and in the future.
I just wish to verify that you have receipts for everything. SPI will not reimburse you otherwise.
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Hopefully SPI can have a look into this next week.
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On 8/3/2017 at 4:29 AM, sphyrth said:
I hope I didn't sound too mean.
I agree with your feedback and I suggest that you improve the tutorial for Alpha 23, @sphyrth.
You have a knack for explaining things simply and concisely.
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Hi @andy5995, I have obtained a confirmation. Please check the the e-mail address associated with your PayPal account.
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Thanks for your donation, @andy5995!
My name is Aviv and I am a member of the 0 A.D. Treasury Committee.
I agree that a confirmation e-mail is in order. I believe that people who donate using Click&Pledge get one automatically, but donors who use PayPal might not.
Unfortunately, we cannot see donations or directly issue confirmations. Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) handles the donations for us and only they have direct access to our financial data.
If you can kindly provide the sum donated, the e-mail address associated with your PayPal account, and date of donation, I will gladly ask SPI to confirm that the sum was donated. You can do this via private message if you prefer. I apologize in advance as it could take quite some time to get any response from SPI.
Last but not least, I have made a new thread in the announcements forum with a copy of the financial report. I have also edited the link in the news post so that it now points there. I thought the treasury committee forum was open to the public. Thanks for letting me know otherwise.
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In the interest of transparency, the Wildfire Games team would like to report on the finances of the project as of 2017-03-31.
Until 2016-12, 0 A.D. had funds in three places:
- Funds earmarked for the project and held in trust by US-based non-profit organization Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (hereafter "SPI");
- A PayPal account under the name of former project leader, Jason Bishop (Wijitmaker). This account was a legacy of the time before we became affiliated with SPI;
- An account on Flattr, a Sweden-based microdonation provider.
SPI Earmark for 0 A.D.
As of 2017-01-01, the 0 A.D. earmark is USD 29,528.35 (Source: SPI Treasurer's Report).
Other Accounts
In our "legacy" PayPal account, we had USD 366.30 on 2016-11-30. This sum was consolidated with the SPI earmark in December 2016 and is probably reflected in the account balance mentioned above. We will not be using this account anymore and we have duly removed the references to it from the donation page.
On Flattr, we have EUR 842.14 available, which are approximately USD 900. We have removed the references to Flattr account from the donation page and we intend to consolidate these funds with the SPI earmark in the near future.
Total
In total, we have approximately 30,428.35 USD.
Concluding Remarks
The 0 A.D. project finances are managed by the Treasury Committee: Erik (“feneur”), Adarash ("MishFTW") and Aviv (“Jeru”). We welcome your comments and suggestions in this thread.
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In the interest of transparency, the Wildfire Games team would like to report on the finances of the project as of 2017-03-31.
Until 2016-12, 0 A.D. had funds in three places:
- Funds earmarked for the project and held in trust by US-based non-profit organization Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (hereafter "SPI");
- A PayPal account under the name of former project leader, Jason Bishop (Wijitmaker). This account was a legacy of the time before we became affiliated with SPI;
- An account on Flattr, a Sweden-based microdonation provider.
SPI Earmark for 0 A.D.
As of 2017-01-01, the 0 A.D. earmark is USD 29,528.35 (Source: SPI Treasurer's Report).
Other Accounts
In our "legacy" PayPal account, we had USD 366.30 on 2016-11-30. This sum was consolidated with the SPI earmark in December 2016 and is probably reflected in the account balance mentioned above. We will not be using this account anymore and we have duly removed the references to it from the donation page.
On Flattr, we have EUR 842.14 available, which are approximately USD 900. We have removed the references to Flattr account from the donation page and we intend to consolidate these funds with the SPI earmark in the near future.
Total
In total, we have approximately 30,428.35 USD.
Concluding Remarks
The 0 A.D. project finances are managed by the Treasury Committee: Erik (“feneur”), Adarash ("MishFTW") and Aviv (“Jeru”). We welcome your comments and suggestions.
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@Itms can you please add
"L’association L’Informatique Solidaire – Desclicks"
To the donor list? I got a request from a donor over email. Thanks!
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I have changed the donation page as per @xanax's suggestion. Thanks for this very valuable and constructive feedback!
I have also deleted the references to the legacy PayPal account and to Flattr from the donation page, as we have decided to consolidate all the funds into the SPI earmark anyway.
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Excellent. Thank you both.
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Hmm, about €200 in a year is a fair amount of money, so the question is how much of that would we still get if we removed the option of donating via Flattr. On the other hand, having money in multiple places does complicate things, and there are fees, so I guess the difference would be minimal if it even would be relevant.
Frankly, as it is, the Flattr money is nearly useless. It's a huge headache to disburse funds from Flattr for any purpose our project would actually need. I hate working with Flattr and I don't want the existing money to be forgotten or otherwise go to waste somehow. I think that if the ~10 monthly donors really want to donate to 0 A.D., they can use the mainstream methods.
QuoteHave you looked into how to transfer it though? I mean if it's too complicated/costly that might make it more beneficial to keep Flattr as an option.
Flattr has a form where you can fill in bank account details and withdraw all the money in the Flattr "wallet balance". I believe the SPI treasurer could just use that form. If we all agree, I'll write the treasurer and verify this. I don't think Flattr would charge anything, but SPI's bank might. Still, I think it's worth a one-time commission.
QuoteAbout the PayPal: In general I agree 100%, there is however the matter of the IPB license, which Jason has been paying with the money from the legacy PayPal account.
That's a good point I hadn't considered (and I was wondering why the balance went down in the legacy account between 2014 and 2015. This explains it).
QuoteI don't really know if there is a good way to pay for it via SPI [...] They do take care of paying for the server though, right? So maybe one more thing wouldn't be too bad, and if paid via credit card I think you can pay e.g. yearly so it's not something they need to spend a lot of time on.
Yeah, they take care of the server. If we all agree, I'll write the treasurer and verify this, but based on our experience with the web server, I think we should be fine.
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I have changed the donation page. The edgy Network for Good thingo is gone and a nice standard PayPal button has replaced it. It is also at the top of the page.
I would like the Treasury Committee's approval to consolidate all of the Flattr funds and all of the legacy PayPal funds into our SPI funds and to cancel the Flattr account. I'll conduct that discussion in a separate thread.
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Here are two anonymized e-mails that I have received with name suggestions for Alpha 22:
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QuoteGood day 0.A.D. - Team!
I want to suppose a very simply, greate and good sound name for your next release. Victory. That word are very needed for all side in every battle, so it good for game with mass battles.
Also I want to suppose, if you agree to use that word for new release, write it as Viktory, because I have a pretty good little son, and his name Viktor (in Russia it writes in that way :)), and it your excellent game will have some piece for my litttle Son, I will be very glad
Thank all of You for great work!
And sorry for bad English
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QuoteBeing a portuguese, the first name that came to my mind is Viriato! or Viriathus ou Viriatus. Weel the Portuguese form, since he was "portuguese" (remind u of the statue of Viriato in Viseu, Portugal)
the famous sentence "Rome does not pay traitors" used in many movies and other several contexts
is also related to his death.
take a pick at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viriatus... ull see its a good choice! and i dont think there was an iberian name on any alpha release so it s a good one!
Best regards and thx for the wonderful game!
You are all invited to write your thoughts about these suggestions and to suggest other names as well!
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Thanks for your suggestions, xanax.
We now have access to a direct PayPal link for donating directly to 0 A.D through SPI (see here). I will make that the top way of donating, instead of Network for Good.
Click&Pledge will probably remain and be demoted to the "second-best" way to donate.
I also would like to get rid of the donations links to Flattr and the legacy PayPal account entirely because they're both a hassle to work with.
Last but not least, I want to write another financial report but I'm having trouble finding the time to do it
I'll do it by December 15.
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Congrats, everyone!
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I suggest this classification:
<content_rating type="oars-1.0"> <content_attribute id="violence-cartoon">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-fantasy">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-realistic">intense</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-bloodshed">moderate</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="violence-sexual">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="drugs-alcohol">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="drugs-narcotics">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="drugs-tobacco">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="sex-nudity">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="sex-themes">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="language-profanity">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="language-humor">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="language-discrimination">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-chat">intense</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-info">intense</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-audio">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-location">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="social-contacts">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="money-purchasing">none</content_attribute> <content_attribute id="money-gambling">none</content_attribute> </content_rating>
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Richard Hughes writes (probably with respect to the "GNOME Software Center"):
QuoteHi again!
First, apologies again for the direct email. I'm emailing you directly as you've been listed as the update contact in one or more AppData files.
We've been busy building an awesome software center, and we've been adding more and more metadata fields that upstream authors can set. The software center is now being used in Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu, Debian and Arch, with many millions of happy users.
The latest feature we want to support is age classifications for games. As your application is listed in the games category we wanted to ask if you could generate some OARS metadata and add it to the 0ad.appdata.xml file. It's really as simple as visiting http://apps-xdgapp.rhcloud.com/oars then answering about 20 questions with multiple choice answers, then pasting the output inside the <component> tag.
Using the <content_rating> tag means we can show your game with an appropriate age rating depending on the country of the end user. If you have any comments about the questions on the OARS page please do let me know.
Of course, you don't have to do a release with these enhancements straight away, and if you have a stable branch it would be a good thing to backport this as well as it does not add translated strings.
When you've changed the file(s) and committed, please email me back and I'll mark your application as completed. If you don't want to hear from me ever again just edit the <update_contact> in the AppData file and change it to somebody else. I'm not planning on emailing more than once every 6 months, so don't worry about me spamming you with even more work to do.
Thanks,
Richard
The URL provided doesn't work for me right now but this does: https://odrs.gnome.org/oars .
Let's add this, shall we?
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On 10/21/2016 at 8:36 PM, feneur said:
Nope, he's the tall one
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Thanks, everyone, the talk went really well thanks to your input!
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On 10/4/2016 at 3:28 PM, sphyrth said:
I know that the devs are trying to push the new alpha out asap and I really like how they approach it with the intent of making as stable as they can, but my impatience is getting to me. So I'm thinking of ways to keep my mind off to something else for a while.
That, and I'm hyped to hear some news about your event.Cool. I will of course write how it went.
20 hours ago, stanislas69 said:Will the talk be available on youtube or something similar ?
Sorry, nope. (And it will be in Hebrew anyway.)
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@sphyrth, October 20th, why do you ask?
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Thanks, everyone who's answered so far.
I have revised the questions a little bit.
Please keep the answers coming!
(If you have already answered and would like to revise the answers accordingly, that would be great!)
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This October, I will be co-delivering a talk about human aspects in FOSS game development, with a developer from Spring RTS.
The talk will focus on what players, developers and other community members want or need from their 0 A.D.-related activities, on conflicts that might arise between these groups and within them, and how those conflicts are (or aren't) resolved.
I'd like to collect some players' perspectives on 0 A.D. for the purposes of this talk.
Hence, I'd be glad if you could answer the following questions:
- How did you come across 0 A.D.?
- What motivates you to play 0 A.D.?
- Is there anything you want from any part of the 0 A.D. community and feel you're not getting? If so, why?
- Is there any more information you'd like to add?
- What is your age, gender, and location?
Many thanks in advance!
Aviv/Jeru
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Reimbursment of expenses for FOSDEM 2018
in Treasury Committee
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In previous events where all the travel was within Europe, the treasury committee has given sums of about EUR 150 per participant, plus about EUR 100 for promotional materials.
This request for EUR 462.80 is well in line with this rough rule of thumb, given the large number of 0 A.D. delegates at FOSDEM this year, which stands at five.
I also think our fiscal situation allows for this "ad hoc" expense. We have about USD 28,000, with about USD 1,000 spent every year on hosting. (In terms of Euros, those sums are equivalent to about EUR 23,000 and about EUR 800 respectively.) Until we do build a budget, I think we should reimburse the attendees.
Therefore, I vote in favor of this proposal.
@feneur @MishFTW