Fall 2012 UMSF Fund Drive, We need to raise $5000 to pay for UMSF upkeep |
Fall 2012 UMSF Fund Drive, We need to raise $5000 to pay for UMSF upkeep |
 Sep 24 2012, 09:43 PM
Post
#1
|
|
 Administrator  Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454  |
Hi folks, it's been about two years since we last passed the hat to raise the money it takes to keep unmannedspaceflight.com going. We need to raise $5000 this time around. You can donate here. For U.S. taxpayers, the entire amount of your donation is tax-deductible.
Our hosting costs about $1000 per six months. This fundraiser will cover 1.5 years of hosting that the Society has already paid for, plus our December bill, plus about $1000 worth of administration costs accumulated over those last two years. If we can manage to raise $6000 then we'll be able to go for a whole year before we run another fundraiser  But we're setting the goal of $5000 because that's all we need for now.Thanks in advance for your support. To monitor how the fundraiser is going, there is a little thermometer gizmo on the donation form. Let's see if we can raise the money within a week! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
|
 |
 
|
 |
|
Sep 24 2012, 10:55 PM
Post
#2
|
|
 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I'll be contributing this Friday. It's hard for a dishonest robot to pull a good heist on a Monday...
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
|
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 01:56 AM
Post
#3
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 159 Joined: 4-March 06 Member No.: 694 |
Despite being a lurker and reader of other people's comments much more than actually posting anything, I did give $50 USD for this site to continue.
-------------------- I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed.
- Opening line from episode 13 of "Cosmos" |
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 02:33 AM
Post
#4
|
|
 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Ka-ching!
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 10:22 AM
Post
#5
|
|
 Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1374 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
When I look at thos pages with Firefox all I see is a background grid.
|
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 10:50 AM
Post
#6
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 362 Joined: 12-June 05 From: Kiama, Australia Member No.: 409 |
Pleasure to give, donation made!
|
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 10:55 AM
Post
#7
|
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 4-May 11 From: Pardubice, CZ Member No.: 5979 |
QUOTE (MahFL @ Sep 25 2012, 12:22 PM)  When I look at thos pages with Firefox all I see is a background grid. Same for me using IE8.  Edit: I guess proxy here at work doesn't like secured https page. Will try from home. |
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 12:02 PM
Post
#8
|
|
 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
Emily, as Charter TPS Member I will fulfill my duty (with pleasure) by making a donation... tonight from home, because on my office computer screen the TPS donation page is just gray with no more on it... I'm not sure I have the latest IE version in my office. Cheers !
|
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 01:22 PM
Post
#9
|
|
 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Try Debayer!
Seriously, Is TPS down because of This: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs...leaky-pipe.html -------------------- |
|
|
|
 Sep 25 2012, 02:29 PM
Post
#10
|
|
|
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 312 |
Another lurker you do a fantastic job it's been my daily read since the Spirit landing
$50 contributed via Paypal |
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 04:04 PM
Post
#11
|
|
|
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Thanks everyone for your generous contributions so far! We're already above $2000 after less than 24 hours!
Regarding the IE8 from work problems: I'm letting the people who do forms know about this -- we'll see if we can figure out a solution. Climber -- fortunately, our website is not hosted from our office, so it (and my ability to work) are entirely unaffected by the leaky pipe. It's just the people who actually need to use paper -- the membership department and finance officer and so on -- who can't do much this week. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
|
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 04:34 PM
Post
#12
|
|
|
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
We're wondering if the problem is related to the thermometer, which we haven't used on our forms before. For those of you having trouble accessing it from work, can you see our regular donation form here?
-------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
|
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 05:37 PM
Post
#13
|
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
No, just a greenish grid.
|
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 06:41 PM
Post
#14
|
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1598 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
FF on XP works, IE doesn't for me. IE appears to think the page's HTML is seriously terrible, with nothing in the body. And looking at the HTML, there are several linebreaks in the <body> tag. I saved the HTML from FF, and it's the same there. FF is just tolerating it better. For what it's worth, it appears that FF is highlighting the <body> stuff in red, probably indicating it realizes it's mangled, but is proceeding rather than abending.
|
|
|
|
|
Sep 25 2012, 06:43 PM
Post
#15
|
|
|
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
We're looking at it and our IT guy says there's a jquery error that's breaking it on IE8. He's trying to fix it.
-------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 1st November 2024 - 12:30 AM |
|
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |
|
