Encouraging SleepyHead Donations for Mark's Past Work!

[NateS]

As many of you know, JediMark, the author of SleepyHead and a member of this forum, is having continuing difficulties with his health, and while we all wish him good luck and better health and happiness, it occurred to me that perhaps many members are not yet aware that this program is donation-ware and financially supported only by users' voluntary contributions to its development. In other words, Mark did all this brilliant work and development without any financial backing, and receives no compensation at all at the moment when users download his program and begin using it, and continue using it.

His software is amazing, and most of us use SleepyHead every day right alongside other programs like ResScan. His Statistics Page, to cite just one example, with Records and Bookmarks quickly presents users with an easily understandable picture of their progress in a manner much more understandable than ResScan does. Yet it doesn't take much imagination to conjecture how much $$$$$ the author(s) of programs like ResScan have been paid for their work by the companies who manufacture and distribute our xPAP machines, compared to the fact that Mark has put his work out there for us on purely an honor system basis, relying on us users to pay what we can, if we can!

To get the ball rolling to try to compensate Mark for his past work, I just went to this page:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/s ... evelopment

and re-read this:

Ways to support SleepyHead Development
Donations

Money makes the world go round, and even foggy OpenSource developers like me need coffee/chocolate/food/etc. I certainly don't expect to make a living providing free software, but I currently have health issues that pretty much restrict what I can do elsewhere.

Any support you can give in this way is always appreciated, by both me and my hard-working and loving wife who is currently supporting me.

SleepyHead Donation page at SourceForge (uses PayPal).

If you would prefer to donate using another method, please contact me.

and so I clicked on the PayPal button and made an additional donation towards his past work, and I encourage all others reading this thread, who are able, to do the same. Every bit helps!

Best wishes, Nate

[Stormynights]

Good idea. Thank you.

[Stormynights]

I could get the PP link to work. Probably my crappy internet service. I will try again later.

[BlackSpinner]

Done. Thank you for reminding us.

[Rickv]

Done

[STL Mark]

Done

[snoozysue]

Thank you for directing me to an easy way to show my appreciation and support for someone who obviously spent many, many hours developing something that helps me to better understand all the data and help me have a better quality of life - very "gushy' for early in the morning but I sincerely appreciate all Mark has done and I am happy to donate

[Stormynights]

I got it done.

[beautifuldreamer]

Thanks for the reminder and the link to make the donation

[Denial Dave]

Done.

[Diggah]

Sorry to hear of his health problems. I ponied up the same day I downloaded it, it seemed like too nice of a piece of work to go unacknowledged.

[Sir NoddinOff]

Yeah, he's had a string of bad luck over the last year or two. I'm send $$$ this week. Money well spent IMO.

[drj130]

Did this on Sunday.

[Bookbear]

Even though I select United States after the dollar amount, further on it will not let me continue without putting in an Aussie state, then rejects my address as invalid. I will try again tomorrow,

[Starlette]

Thank you NateS for bring this to our attention. I didn't even consider to do this.

Starlette