Uh, has anybody even considered the, you know, rather necessary step of how we're gonna raise the funds? Someone posted a few links to the proper government forms to file for this sorta thing, and that was basically ****ing it. You're all getting ahead of yourselves- **** how much money you say you would give, **** how to negotiate with Interplay, fu- okay, don't **** with what we're gonna do with the license if we ever get it, that's important, but seriously- someone else ****ing help out with setting this thing up. We need webspace, we need a reliable, trustworthy proxy who'll pool the money gathered both at HLP and by symps elsewhere, we need it, like, this ****ing weekend.
I've already offered to help fill out the forms. I'm not the best person to do it, but I'll give it a shot. If someone else offers in the next couple hours, they are totally welcome to that job. That's step one almost outta the way.
Now, someone needs to set up somewhere to put this money, and a way everyone with a credit/debit card/paypal account can get to it. It's gotta be absolutely secure and trustworthy, else nobody, especially not I, will send any money to it. There should be a mechanism to relatively painlessly return funds to those who donated them should the effort fail. While it's possible that just setting up an online bank account and letting Steak have exclusive withdrawal access would do the job, ideally no single person should be able to, say, siphon off funds- even if we know they wouldn't do that, there's lots of people who don't, and the attempt to raise enough cash will founder on them.
Someone needs to set up a webpage with a submission interface for it- simple as humanly possible, designed like a standard Web order form so nobody'll get confused, needs fields for the relevant amount/pay type/info stuff, name, whether they want the donation to be anonymous, **** like that. Someone with, y'know, PHP experience, which'd probably mean Styxx if he's willing.
Someone else needs to give the page all those nice things like 'special thanks' listings and regular insults and Derek flames to get the hate crowd (by far the largest interested group) going. This could really be anyone who's remotely personable and has at least the IQ of a concussed squirrel, which most likely means someone like aldo or Shrike or Setekh or whoever- if nobody is interested (which I doubt) I'll do it on a weekly basis unless I get shipped out to Morocco or wherever this year, but ideally someone else should. I'll check with an0n to see if all this **** can get hosted on a Nodewars page, he's probably got more capability to deal with a large influx than anybody else.
Once we've got that settled, and the account is working and getting its inital donations, then everyone can settle back and worry about all this other stuff- it'll be a while before there's a need to act again on that front. But first things ****ing first. Until then, any other talk on the subject will probably strictly counterproductive. That means you too, Stealth.
