For anyone that donated so far: I’ve enabled the “Sponsor” badge in the user profiles. If you prefer not to show, you can disable the badge in your user profile.

@showbizkid here you go: http://magicmirror.builders/donate

@lavolp3 Whoops! Sorry!

We used Slack for quite a while now, but unfortunately we ran into Slack issues (like user limitations). Because of this I decided to move to discord. If you like to chat about the MagicMirror² project, come and join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/J5BAtvx

See you there!

@cowboysdude @Mykle1 It seems to work on my end (and for some others that I’ve asked). Could you try to see if it still gives an error (even if you’re not planning to donate … :)) Thanks!

@mykle1 Yes, I’ve created a group to which I will I eventually add all the sponsors.

@broberg First of all: thanks for the donation! I really appreciate it!

Your link doesn’t seem to work since it includes your (expired) session token. I checked the donate button config, and it should display an English form. I tried changing the locale but it doesn’t seem to work.

This is the official sharable link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5D8E9MR5DTD2&source=url

Adding the locale doesn’t seem to work:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5D8E9MR5DTD2&source=url&country.x=NL&locale.x=nl_EN

Any suggestions?

Hi Everybody,

Thanks for all your suggestions! I’ve added a donate link (using Paypal) to the homepage, the forum menubar and the readme of the project (currently dev branch only). If you have any suggestions where I can add more donate buttons without being annoying, feel free to let me know.

If you want to go to the donation-page directly, please follow this link.

To all of you that are going to donate: many many many thanks in advance!

@sdetweil That’s a valid point!

The support is focussed on the total project, including the development, maintenance and running costs like the website and forum.

Like I said before::

Initially the money will go towards the forum (and website). To host this forum, we are running a dedicated server. Additionally a lot of mails are being sent daily (forum digest, update notifications, registration confirmation, etc …), those cost money as well.

If I manage to get more funds over the running costs, that money will allow me to spent more hours on the project. I try to do as much as I can in my spare time, but dedicating a few of my work hours a week to this project would be highly beneficial to the project.

@cowboysdude said:

How about a section within the forum where users can go to get one on one individual help in exchange for a donation.

The problem with this idea is that individual support is very time consuming. Essentially you are hiring me on an hourly basis to give support. This would only work I I would charge my hourly development fee, which for a project like this probably won’t work.

Perhaps someone wants help to modify a module for their particular needs…something more along that lines… BUT donations to continue operations would never be a bad idea!

As others have said I only maintain the core and the default modules. Most modules a third party, so I won’t be able to give support on those anyway.

Thanks for your suggestions though! Good to know what people are looking for.

@rts58 said:

I would suspect though, that you will be better off getting some corporate sponsorship and allowing some non-intrusive ads.

If I limit the support to one company, this might give users the idea it’s owned by a company or that the company will have some influence on the project. I think it’s important that the project will be community supported, not company supported. That being said: I probably will allow companies to be become some sort of “platinum sponsor” with in return a logo on the project page.