Some of you may remember a few months ago, when I posted a thread about creating a Messenger Plus! forum charity, where people donate and money is sent to a charity, or lots of different charities in the name of the Messenger Plus! community.

Well about a six weeks ago, I decided to revive the idea, so I discussed it with Patchou and he agreed so I gathered a team (Myself, Patchou, Chris Boulton and MenthiX) and got to work on the website. While working on the website, Patchou and MenthiX guided and helped with the paypal set up, while Chris Boulton coded the php (the complicated stuff ).

The first target we have is to raise $500 for a charity of your choice, this will be in the name of the forum, so everybody who donates will get their name put down and it will be sent off to who donated, or of course simply placed on the website if there are too many names (hopefully there will be lots!!!).

I am going to be making another thread after this one, asking for ideas on the charities to donate the money to. One idea we did have was to either sponsor a child or simply donate the money to certain things, for example: buying a kit for a farmer in Africa to grow crops, or buy 100 school dinners for children. But, it is all up to you (obviously they have to be serious charities).

The website isn't hosted on www.msgpluslive.net because Patchou doesn't have the time to manage that aswell as his great piece of software. So the site will be managed by myself, chris boulton and menthix. The management also includes managing the donations that are receieved (which are, unfortunately, only accepted by credit/debit card and paypal via. the donate button on the website).

So please donate! It's for a good cause!!! Also, a donator will be selected at random (regardless of how much they donated) and sent a free Messenger Plus! Live t-shirt!

You can reach the website by going to: www.msgpluslivecharity.net or of course going to www.msgpluslive.net and pressing the link on the main website!

I'd also like to thank Jonathan Kay for buying the domain and sithtoast for hosting it for free.

Very Nice , unfortunatly I can't donate (havent spent any money since CamForSam started )

I'll donate sometime soon and then it'll be worth all your stress

Nice idea.

I'll definetly donate if / when I get a PayPal account...

Typo:

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in the name of the Messenger Plus! Community, so now credit will go to one single person

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Congrats..... i shall see if i can donate later...

I'm pretty sure he meant no instead of now

great Idea! I will try my hardest to help out and I'll get friends to donate too

Thank you for all of your comments, I will fix that now. Any suggestions etc. please PM me or menthix regarding it .

I may be able to donate later though.

Thank you to everyone who has donated already, we already have $25 through, which is good considering the minute length of time that the website has been running for!

Does it always have to pay via credit/debit card and paypal? Unfortunately, I can't donate, as I don't even have a single one.

I will be happy to donate and spread the word. Just ashame I only have £0.63 in paypal at the moment. If you want it, it's yours .

The same thread again? Last time we didnt have any donations cause ideas were being made right?
I would donate but it'd probably not be as much after the conversion Plus paypal doesnt work here and i dont have a CC so if anyone has an idea then let me know

So we can't be sued by some lowlife who thinks we are stealing money from them, I think it might be a good idea to register the site with the charity commission.

I think you'll find that this forum isn't the charity, therefore we don't need to register with any charity commision. I'm positive that even if they did try and sue, they wouldn't win. I think you may've misread the website.

We've already made $60 (usd) which is great, so we're over a tenth of the way there .

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Originally posted by traxor
Any suggestions etc. please PM me or menthix regarding it .

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Okay, I will contact Paypal about the website now and the paypal account now.

As for the second point, I see what you mean... Instead of the highest donator winning something, anybody who donates can get the t-shirt. They will be selected randomly when the total is reached.

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Originally posted by traxor
As for the second point, I see what you mean... Instead of the highest donator winning something, anybody who donates can get the t-shirt. They will be selected randomly when the total is reached.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
2) Why should everything be a competition? Especially for something like this? I certainly do not agree upon "he who donates the most gets a price".... This doesn't only goe against the idea of charity in general. It is also very discriminating to the people who can't donate that much or not at all. 10$ might seem very little for some people, while it will be a month's allowence of somebody else!!!! Please do not turn this into a competition and drop the idea of that t-shirt.

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will the charity that donations go to be put up as a vote after suggestions have been made? Is there anyone that gets a final say?

It's amazing! In just over 24 hours, we have already raised an amazing $101!!!

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by traxor
As for the second point, I see what you mean... Instead of the highest donator winning something, anybody who donates can get the t-shirt. They will be selected randomly when the total is reached.

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much better....

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suggestions:

3) Change the used currency on the paypal account to the more universal US dollars (if possible)

4) Verify your paypal account.


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Question:
Who actually has access to the paypal account? In things like this it is better to have a few trusted (by everyone) people having access (you, patchou, chris, trekkie, ...). Eg: so they can't accuse you from withholding money etc... (it's the same way as with bankaccounts of companies: it are always several people who has access to them; no matter if they all are close friends or not. It's just safer for both you and the rest)


I just donated

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Originally posted by gif83
will the charity that donations go to be put up as a vote after suggestions have been made? Is there anyone that gets a final say?

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Sorry for the double post, but all of the bank account is just about to get verified, so keep the donations coming in .

going to send 15€ which is almost 20 $

i feel nice today ..

EDIT : Damn im gonna wait until you change to usd ... an euro is 1.2 dollars so you get more money

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Originally posted by Cantunis
going to send 15€ which is almost 20 $

i feel nice today ..

EDIT : Damn im gonna wait until you change to usd ... an euro is 1.2 dollars so you get more money

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Cantunis
going to send 15€ which is almost 20 $

i feel nice today ..

EDIT : Damn im gonna wait until you change to usd ... an euro is 1.2 dollars so you get more money

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The valuta will automatically adapt in your own paypal account.

15€ equals 10.3770 GBP

So you can simply send 10.37 GBP with your paypal account and on your bill it will show as 15€...

For currency convertion see http://www.xe.com/

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Originally posted by Cantunis
Done , Payment Sent .

15,38 € that makes 10,37 GBP .

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w0w 150$ that good

on msgpluslivecharity.net you could make it write in middle of bar :

Current Amount : XXX $

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Originally posted by Cantunis
w0w 150$ that good

on msgpluslivecharity.net you could make it write in middle of bar :

Current Amount : XXX $

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Originally posted by traxor

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Originally posted by Cantunis
w0w 150$ that good

on msgpluslivecharity.net you could make it write in middle of bar :

Current Amount : XXX $

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I spoke to fishy about it, he didn't reply. I may try and do it myself, surely it wouldn't be that difficult.

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Just need to post again to keep people interested. It's annoying because a link was supposed to go on www.msgpluslive.net but it still hasn't been put up.

I'd like to thank everyone for their donations, we have just donated $150USD to the Red Cross.

As you can see on http://www.msgpluslivecharity.net/, the donation site is currently closed because of some issues. But we will be back bigger and better ... when Patchou gets back we hope to get the link on www.msgpluslive.net and get the charity project re-opened.

Thank you again everyone who has donated. And those who are interested, we will be back for you as a way to show your support for Messenger Plus! and do something good for the world at once.

I'd also like to say thank you to everyone for all of the donations etc.