DevTreks Donations and Contributions Schedule

Version beta 0.8.0, August 18, 2011

Please review the video, Social Budgeting: Investing in the Future 
of Economics, on www.devtreks.org. Note, in particular, the part 
advising government and industry customers that a $30,000/year 
donation is a smart investment in saving you money.

Product Donations

DevTreks web site clubs:

Web hosting fee of 10% of clubs revenues

Other web server, intranet, or desktop clubs:

1 to 300 clubs
$100 per club per year * multiplier*

Government, industry, large organization, or data-intensive club, users:
$30,000 per year * multiplier*
(if you can afford a larger donation, please do so)
We prefer using the money to compensate our employees within 
the country, industry, or organization, making the donation.

*Multiplier calculation:
median per capita income (your country) / median per capita income (USA)
use World Bank stats for latest year available

Academic and research clubs:
Researchers who can afford to pay regular rates should do so.
Others are expected to make in-kind software and data set 
improvements or contributions. 

DevTreks can be used for instructional purposes without making any 
donations or contributions.

Note that contributions can also be waived for non-academic clubs 
who make substantive software, data set, or marketing, contributions. 

Hardship cases:
Please contact devtrekkers@devtreks.org.

Service Fees

Custom extensions, features, analyses, data set development, 
classification system development, semantic data development,
turn-key deployment, training, or support*:

Fees vary depending on the service. 
Please contact devtrekkers@devtreks.org to discuss.

*DevTreks will waive most of our normal fees for meaningful 
field work in interesting places. If money is tight, we can 
bring the camping gear. 

To make a donation or contribution:

a. ePayments can be paid through www.devtreks.org. We are charged 
a 2+% transaction fee and prefer donations by alternative means.

b. Checks can be made payable to DevTreks and mailed to:
	DevTreks
	1930 NW Irving Street, #402
	Portland, OR 97209-1267

All donations and contributions are tax deductible (DevTreks is an official 
USA 501c nongovernmental organization) and contributors will receive a tax 
deduction verification form. 

Make sure that your donation includes:
	1. Contact information. 
	2. Customers who want the source code should specify how they'll be 
	contributing to the source code project. 
	
After proper receipt of your donation and information, DevTreks will send:
	1. Instructions for downloading the latest version. 
	2. A tax deduction verification form verifying the specific purchase. 
	
Contributions will be used to pay DevTreks expenses and hire staff. 
From an administrators view, we're just getting started and we have 
a lot to learn (including automating the donation process). It will 
take some time to get up and running. Larger product purchases, or 
grants, will expedite startup.

Grants
DevTreks does not generally solicit grants directly. But if you'd like to 
make a grant to DevTreks to support any of the lines of business found in 
the BusinessPlan.txt file, please contact us at:
	devtrekkers@devtreks.org

Reengineering vs. Open Source Participation
If you are planning to reengineer DevTreks, please note that at the current 
rate of development, a new DevTreks version is released every 3 to 4 weeks. 
DevTreks has 3 notebooks full of ideas about how to improve the products and 
services, so the rate of versioning may not change much. As an alternative, 
you might want to consider joining the open source project -you won't end up 
with an outdated product. For information about joining the open source 
project, please contact us at:
	devtrekkers@devtreks.org