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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #90 on: March 17, 2011, 04:27:08 am »
They look nice, but I don't think we even have to sell anything. I think donations will give enough money, after I read what people wrote.

EDIT:If now the people who are willing to donate money for omnimaga say it and how much, we can quickly find out if thats enough.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #91 on: March 17, 2011, 05:58:14 am »
cafepress anyone? I'd buy an Omnimaga hoodie.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #92 on: March 17, 2011, 08:16:50 am »
Quote from: Scout on March 16, 2011, 04:24:39 pm
Quote from: yeongJIN_COOL on March 16, 2011, 04:23:02 pm
So we should targetconvince the poor "over-consumerism-ized people" to buy it?(Maybe Math Teachers)

It's impossible to sell calculator software, it really is. Believe me, I'm not being pessimistic, but I'm sure of it.
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Personally I'M totally against selling calc software. We'll instantly get a bad reputation, noticing comments towards people who tried to sell stuff they made for calcs on UTI and other sites before. Also I'm not gonna be in charge of coding a store. Also we're not gonna sell other ppl programs, that would be unethical and wrong, since it's not our properties. This isn't to mention it's easy to crack softwares anyway.
Personally I would go with donations and maybe a t-shirt/goodies stores or something.

Also it would be preferable to not archive old topics. They can be interesting sometimes. If we're gonna move to a cheaper host, you'll have to make sure databases aren,t limited to 100 MB or something


I agree about not selling apps, TI tried it years ago and epic failed. Calc software should be free. IMHO that's one of the biggest pluses of our great community! You also have to remember our target audience is students and hobbyist. Students are usually quite lacking in funds most of the time, and most likely could better spend their money on other things. Even 5$ at a time adds up. *edit*:Plus what DJ said about cracking. Once an app is out, what's to stop someone from copying and re-distributing it?*edit*


@Cooliojazz: I like the shirt design, very nice. If there is a site that we can do shirts, hats and maybe hoodies from, I'd support that idea too if it was a well managed site and the prices are decent.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #93 on: March 17, 2011, 08:23:05 am »
I'd totally buy that shirt if I could. Nice, cooliojazz :)
[bigego]Hey, my name's on there ;D[/bigego] :P
Edit: Ah, the order is by most posts. That'd explain it.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #94 on: March 17, 2011, 09:25:17 am »
I like the idea of selling android or iphone apps, though.  That would be nice.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #95 on: March 17, 2011, 04:38:31 pm »
lol I guess a lotta people like my cafe press Idea. I would totally buy an omni T-Shirt! :P Also yeah I would like to see some collectables/goods sold.. a plush blue lobster perhaps? :D that would go right ontop of my new computer too :P
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #96 on: March 17, 2011, 05:05:52 pm »
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #97 on: March 17, 2011, 06:07:43 pm »
Hmm for t-shirts, I think the Omni banner one should be more black, so it fits well, adn I think there should be one with just the Omni logo on it too. A white and black T-shirt, maybe, and a black/blue one with just the 2001 logo on them.

Various ideas are welcome, even calc game heroes sprites, but Cafepress limits the logo sizes, IIRC, from what TsukasaZX told me a year ago...
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #98 on: March 17, 2011, 06:20:31 pm »
Starfow mockups in the Star Fox thread, those were amazing.  :P
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #99 on: March 17, 2011, 08:56:39 pm »
Just put the *^%&% donate button up already!! I'm itching to donate my $20! but more seriously, this needs to be done soon, so that all of the various floaters who come to the site will see the donate button.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #100 on: March 17, 2011, 09:01:34 pm »
I am worried for 2 reasons.

1.)  People won't feel recognized for there contributions.
2.) If they are, then perhaps we will have trolls who hate on those who donate (other than the fact that trolls hate on all :/ )

What I am getting at is there should be a little area that shows how much has been contributed (at users agreement).  There should be an increased amount of supervision too to make sue people aren't doing number 2.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #101 on: April 24, 2011, 06:34:49 pm »
So far it looks like there could be a Cafepress shop to sell some random Omnimaga-themed merchandise, but the two problems that arises are that I am unsure if any of the staff has paypal privileges and such things, due to being under 18 or other constraints and I am unsure if I feel like spending lots of time designing things like t-shirts. The other issue is that it seems like the free version of the shop only let us have one item of each kind, so that would limit our range of articles a lot. There's a $4.99/month store, but then the issue is that in long terms, the store would obviously stop selling anything anymore, meaning we would lose money.

1and1 also has a shop service, but it seems to be a third-party, and they only sell t-shirts.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #102 on: April 24, 2011, 06:45:02 pm »
Cafepress? You may use something else.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #103 on: April 24, 2011, 06:53:41 pm »
What's wrong with it? Do you have any other alternatives that are better (and free) if you find Cafepress so bad?
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #104 on: April 24, 2011, 08:58:49 pm »
Not to break the conversation about cafepress, but I would certainly be willing to donate over paypal if the option was avaliable. Anything to keep omnimaga going!
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