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Nov 1, 2018 8:08pm
Avatar Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts

Once more, we at ROOL are going to put our money where our website is and start matching bounty contributions from you good people. For the remainder of 2018, we will match any donations into our bounty scheme (excluding the General bounty and recurring donations) up to a total of £5,000.

We have significant work underway on the filing system (including support for partitions – at last!) and the networking stack (improving security). Now is a great time to build upon this progress and show your support.

Please note: we will update the bounties to reflect our matching roughly once a week. Don’t panic if you make a donation and don’t immediately see our matching contribution appear – it’s a manual process on our side so we’re minimising the amount of admin it creates!

 
Dec 19, 2018 10:10am
Avatar Bernard Boase (169) 174 posts

1. How can one tell if or when the matching £5,000 you offer has been ‘used up’ so that new donations won’t be matched?

2. Am I right in thinking that, if no one bounty project is especially important to me, then money is best put into ‘RISC OS General (2018)’?

 
Dec 19, 2018 9:07pm
Avatar Sprow (202) 1048 posts

How can one tell if or when the matching £5,000 you offer has been ‘used up’ so that new donations won’t be matched?

We can estimate that by looking at the nearest archive capture on 9th November, subtracting today’s totals, showing £2840 difference (so £1420 of matching). Now, that’s only an estimate because Steve’s post was on 1st November and there would have been an early peak when announced.

However, unless you’re planning on pledging over £2500 you should be OK!

Am I right in thinking that, if no one bounty project is especially important to me, then money is best put into ‘RISC OS General (2018)’?

If you like them all equally then you’re better putting an equal amount in each, as that’s not equivalent to putting it all in the general bounty which is for specific things not related to the other ones (plus, to avoid feedback, no matching occurs on that pot).

 
Dec 20, 2018 12:06am
Avatar Bernard Boase (169) 174 posts

Thanks, Robert, that’s clear.

 
Dec 24, 2018 9:04am
Avatar Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts

Seasons greetings! Time for an update as the end of the year approaches…

We’ve had an amazing £4,454.74 donated since our latest bounty matching scheme started, which leaves £545.26 available between now and the end of 2018. Two of our four bounties have now exceeded our initial targets, which is great.

We are hugely grateful to everyone who has shown their support, both now and before the scheme started. That includes the people donating to our ‘General’ bounty which doesn’t show in the matching scheme total above. Have a great Christmas (if you celebrate it!) and we’ll see you all in the New Year.

 
Dec 24, 2018 9:20pm
Avatar Chris Mahoney (1684) 2033 posts

Nice! Well done everyone :)

 
Dec 31, 2018 5:50pm
Avatar David R. Lane (77) 692 posts

We’ve had an amazing £4,454.74 donated since our latest bounty matching scheme started, which leaves £545.26 available between now and the end of 2018.

So come on the rest of you, to plug the GBP545.26 gap, you have a few hours left! To put my money “where my mouth is”, I have donated to that gap, since Steve Revill’s post.

 
Dec 31, 2018 7:47pm
Avatar David Feugey (2125) 2628 posts

We do too (almost) at RISC OS FR :)

 
Dec 31, 2018 8:16pm
Avatar Andrew Rawnsley (492) 1353 posts

If it comes up short, RISC OS Developments will cover the balance up to the magic number, to ensure the whole bounty matching pot is used. I guess put towards networking bounty. Please consider this post a formal offer.

Obviously if other funding covers the whole amount, then we’d prefer to use our funds for our other projects (which are progressing nicely), but it seems daft to let the pot go to waste.

 
Dec 31, 2018 8:59pm
Avatar David R. Lane (77) 692 posts

So we wait for just over 3 hours to hear from Steve Revill whether the goal has been reached. :-)

 
Dec 31, 2018 11:05pm
Avatar David R. Lane (77) 692 posts

Less than one hour to go – I am sitting on the edge of my computer chair waiting for Steve’s announcement at midnight. :-)

 
Jan 6, 2019 1:34pm
Avatar Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts

Your wait is now over…

 
Jan 7, 2019 11:29pm
Avatar David R. Lane (77) 692 posts

Phew, just made it!

I see that “Further clipboard support” donations have shot up bringing the total within a stone’s throw of target.

 
Jan 13, 2019 7:10pm
Avatar Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts

And it has now been claimed. :)

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