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Can donations here be a write-off? Not sure what all the tax rules are. Is that related to the educational status you were trying to get? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 03:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
:No, donations can't be written off. Rosetta Code does not have 501(3)(c) status, or any other non-profit status. Yes, that's the educational status I'd like to get. To get it though, there really needs to be a financial history I can point the IRS at, and the paperwork (and required internal rules) are thicker. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 07:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
::have you considered joining organizations like [[wp:Software in the Public Interest|Software in the Public Interest]] or the [[wp:Software Freedom Conservancy|Software Freedom Conservancy]]? --[[User:EMBee|eMBee]] 05:47, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
:::Not deeply. I'd have to look long and hard at it; I would be worried that any umbrella organization I might join wouldn't have the same goals as I have, and may not have a compatible mindset to mine. (I'm largely thinking about licenses, economics, politics and philosophy, which I can easily see being epicenters for disagreement in direction.) I wouldn't be averse to discussing options and opportunities with any interested party, though. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 15:18, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
::::well, there are only two really worth considering i think. SPI supports debian which includes even non-free software in their repositories so i don't think they'd have an issue with rosettacode supporting non-free language implementations. afterall, all the code is free. SFC is run by bradley kuhn who is working with the FSF which might be more of an issue regarding non-free languages but you'd have to ask. also i wonder if talking to them beats dealing with the IRS :-) --[[User:EMBee|eMBee]] 15:51, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
== Programming Task??? ==
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There are some computer languages, which compilers are more or less company-bound. Why not ask the companies and offer Ad-space for them. Obvious examples may be C# or Java.
: Text-Link Ads supports targeted advertisement like that, but I have to add individual URLs to for their review, and there's no guarantee it'll hit their marketplace. I'll explicitly submit those two, however. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 19:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
== urldogg ==
Too bad they are not real dollars...: [http://urldogg.com/rosettacode.org Rosettacode.org gets about 4,651 pageviews per day, and earns an estimated $13.95 daily.] --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 18:12, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
: I must definitely be doing something wrong. Also, their pageviews count is low; According to Google Analytics, we had about 40k pageviews over the last 7 days. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 18:47, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
:: I imagine they think that those page views are page views with full out ads (and perhaps popups) on every page. Though I have not really looked into what their assumptions are. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 18:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
== Flattr ==
Along the lines of the donate button, there is also [http://flattr.com/ Flattr]. I haven't used it or looked deeply into it, so I don't know what the full pros and cons are. --[[User:Coderjoe|Coderjoe]] 00:50, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
== 2012 status? ==
Every document and note I have seen about finances was from 2011. Is there anything happening in 2012 ? [[User:DavidWhitten|DavidWhitten]] 20:10, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
== Cloudflare? ==
Have you considered using [https://www.cloudflare.com/overview Cloudflare]? The basic service is free. You'd still have to run your own server, but their caching would reduce your bandwidth, so you could avoid overages or having to add more servers. It might also help protect you from spam. I haven't used it; I've just looked at their website, but it sounds interesting.
--[[User:Ppelleti|Ppelleti]] 02:50, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Never mind, it looks like you're already using Cloudflare, since I periodically get the Cloudflare error "Error 524 Ray ID: 1137acd15aaa012e A timeout occurred" when using Rosetta Code. I guess the problem is that the HTML content can't be cached, since it's dynamically generated. Some thoughts:
* I love Rosetta Code, but it's painfully slow for me, even when it doesn't time out. Could you update the Finances page for 2014 and provide some sort of "donation goal" to indicate what would be necessary to upgrade Rosetta Code to a faster host?
* You might want to consider moving the "Donate" button to a less out-of-the-way place. Maybe to the sidebar along with the G+ and Tweet buttons? It would sort of make sense there. Though you've expressed that a Donate button might be annoying, I think it's less annoying than having a really slow site.
* Maybe also consider Gittip?
* The BookLink template doesn't seem to work.
--[[User:Ppelleti|Ppelleti]] ([[User talk:Ppelleti|talk]]) 22:47, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
== Gittip ==
I would second Ppelleti's suggestion of Gittip. Various people rave about it. https://www.gittip.com/
[[User:Clebio|Clebio]] ([[User talk:Clebio|talk]]) 10:47, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
== as-a-Service ==
The idea of selling the content, possibly in book form, was mentioned over here: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code:Village_Pump/Income
I'd suggest that the content-as-a-service might be valuable. Specifically, I have an idea for a web app that would use RC's code samples. I've tried reaching out to Michael on Twitter. Since I can't edit his talk page (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/User_talk:Short_Circuit, as an aside, it looks like there's vandalism at the bottom of that page) and since this is potentially related to funding RC, I'm posting it here. But I'd like to discuss offline if possible. Feel free to email me.
[[User:Clebio|Clebio]] ([[User talk:Clebio|talk]]) 11:05, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
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