You do a lot- and a lot that people don't see. We just appreciate that!
I appreciate that.
My time working on site stuff waxes and wanes. This last year has been quite intensive because of the move to the new site content management system and all the custom coding I've had to do for it. But now that that's done life will be easier going forward. I hate that it's taken so much time away from coding on applications, but it had to be done. Now I will have more freedom to work on new projects and improve my existing apps.
Anyway, as I said, I *do* get money from the site -- both from donations and from the occasional site license purchase of my software. After expenses are paid, I am not shy about receiving donations and money from the site, especially if I've worked hard recently on the site and my software, and when it's clear that donations are coming in for my applications. And not since the very early years have I had to take money out of my own pocket to pay for DC expenses -- we've been bringing in more than enough to pay for expenses, even as MS Windows has been losing some popularity. As long as DC can pay for itself and I can adjust the time I am able to devote to it in order to balance that with time spent earning a living, I will be happy.
In addition, one of the things that I coded with the new site this year was a complete statistics module to track the money coming into the site. I will be sharing complete information about money raised throughout the year, in an attempt to be more open about the money coming into the site.
One of the happiest surprises for me, in addition to the very healthy fundraiser, was that the changes to simplify and streamline the giving away of free license keys, has not resulted in a precipitous drop-off of donations, as I feared; to the contrary, it looks like the
more straightforward process and much clearer presentation provided by
the new license key page, has resulted in a modest but noticable increase both in frequency and amount of regular donations.
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