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[GlobalType] needs your help
Posted by Lars Kähler in
17 Feb 2013 — 11:43pm
17 Feb 2013 — 11:43pm
Hello everybody!
You may know about GlobalType. It’s the world’s largest collection of typeface data. For a technical update of the Typo3 based website I need 520,– €. I can give 100,– € by myself, and my provider will support the update with another 80,– €. So I need 340,– €.
Could somebody here imagine to help me in this case?
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18 Feb 2013 — 12:02am
What exactly does that mean?
n.
18 Feb 2013 — 2:28am
The underlying CMS system of the website needs to be updated because of security reasons. I can’t do this by myself.
18 Feb 2013 — 7:09am
Do you have a Kickstarter allergy?
hhp
26 Feb 2013 — 3:59pm
Kickstarter isn’t available in Germany.
18 Feb 2013 — 10:50am
They charge for security updates? Time to switch to a different CMS.
18 Feb 2013 — 10:59am
Sounds like you need a US partner.
hhp
18 Feb 2013 — 1:19pm
Kickstarter isn't available in Germany.
Why would that matter? One could always transfer the funds.
18 Feb 2013 — 4:13pm
I think it’s not necessary to use Kickstarter or any other fundraising solution to collect an amount of money like this. You could pay some money on my PayPal account. 340,– €, that’s ~ 454,– US-$. I will tell you about the banking connection.
26 Feb 2013 — 3:21pm
Here’s the PayPal button, directly at the start page of my project:
http://www.global-type.org
I’ve received 200,– € by now. So I need another 320,– € to fulfil the update. If you can imagine to do something for me, feel free to use that button. ;-) You may use any currency you prefer.
Later this year there will come a new logo and web design.
26 Feb 2013 — 2:48pm
But if you use Kickstarter you might actually end up with much more than you asked for! :-)
That said: donation coming up (although it might not be much).
hhp
26 Feb 2013 — 3:17pm
Okay, I don’t have got any problems to use Kickstarter. Could I use somebody’s banking account inside US for this purpose?
26 Feb 2013 — 4:16pm
aluminum
wrote @ 18 Feb 2013 — 10:50 am
They charge for security updates? Time to switch to a different CMS.
No. The update itself is for free, as Typo3 is in general (GNU licence). But I can’t do this by myself, so I need the help of a Typo3 coder. I’ve got an offer about 520,– €. I have collected 200,– € by now and I need another 320,– € ( 418,163 US-$ ) to complete my mission.
This is all I need in the moment. There will be a new logo and web design, but I get this for free from a colleague. There will be no expensive relaunches. Maybe later.
22 Mar 2013 — 7:51pm
Now, I’ve got the money I need for the update of the CMS. Thanks a lot!
23 Mar 2013 — 1:13am
Non-US alternative to Kickstarter is IndieGoGo.