donations

I'd like to thank everyone for their great response in our donation drive. In eleven days we hit our first goal of $2000. This help from the community will allow us to cover our monthly costs. Like all that Kickstarter madness, we are going to put some stretch goals to help us cover other major costs we've had this year. The first stretch goal will be to cover the 2011 Awards. I'm raising the goal to $3000, but I took this screen grab of the goal being reached.

For info on donation drive, and why we kicked it off in the first place, hit up the source link to read that post. And remember, folks who donate get special badges for their profile for 2012.

If you donate $25 or more, I'll add the "I Donated" badge to your profile. If you donate $100 or more, I'll also add the "Like a Boss" badge to your profile. Please note - Prior to this donation drive, the *ONLY* people on the site to have the "Like a Boss" badge are the four-man Admin Team (skipclarke, AussieTimmeh, CrackerJackMack and Delphium).

I have never really done this before, but I am now coming to the community and asking for your assistance in covering our monthly costs. Recent changes in our hosting costs, and current advertisers has brought me to the decision that I need to ask the community for help.

The WSGF has always been open and free. We don't charge for any of our information, our solutions or site access. Many other sites require you to register to view certain sections of their forums, search their forums or view/download attachments to articles and forums. I can't stand that, and we will never do that. The WSGF isn't at risk of shutting down. But your donations will help take a lot of stress off of me, and it will help us continue to grow and expand. We want to do more for the community, and offer more. We just can't do it all by ourselves.

Update: Thanks to everyone who donated. We hit our first goal on 5/25. Like all that Kickstarter stuff, I'm going to put in a stretch goal. I'd like to see if we can cover the costs for the awards that we sent out in February.

Here's a few questions I figure some folks might have, or might ask, so I'll try and answer them proactively:

What do I get for donating?

You get a nice warm fuzzy feeling in your heart. If you donate $25 or more, I'll add the "I Donated" badge to your profile. If you donate $100 or more, I'll also add the "Like a Boss" badge to your profile. Please note - Prior to this donation drive, the *ONLY* people on the site to have the "Like a Boss" badge are the four-man Admin Team (skipclarke, AussieTimmeh, CrackerJackMack and Delphium).

The WSGF is very thankful for its members who volunteer their time to fix lacking Eyefinity and Surround support in current titles. Many of these are major releases such as Battlefield, Call of Duty, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and L.A. Noire.

The lack of developer implemented multi-monitor support means that these titles will provide much less enjoyment to Eyefinity and Surround users. Without the efforts of these community volunteers many of these titles would remain usable only on single screens.

As many countries and cultures enter into their Thanksgiving and Holiday seasons, please join us in expressing our thankfulness to this volunteer army of community coders by donating in our donation drive. All of the proceeds will be distributed to the active coders on the site. It will help them with acquiring hardware and software to improve their patch development.

Thank you very much for your help and support. You can donate through PayPal by using the Chip-In in this article or in the left nav.