[rkward-users] Donate to Rkward

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Thursday 31 March 2011, Alex Ruiz Euler wrote:
> Is there a way to donate that is not via PayPal? I would love to give
> something to the extent that my overstretched grad student paycheck
> allows, but I don't want to do it with PP.

I can totally understand your reluctance to use PayPal. However, at the 
moment, it's the only option that our host (sourceforge) supports. Perhaps it 
will make sense to provide one more option in the future, but in fact, I 
wouldn't know which one to pick. Any recommendations on a payment service that 
is
- international / cross currency
- mostly fair
- widely in use?

> Also, some friends and I have had some hypothesis about how you
> pronounce Rkward. Most of them are pretty weird. For example, one claims
> that it is supposed to go with an Australian accent playing on the word
> awkward because most of us users are probably, well, awkward.

Well, as far as the pronounciation goes, that is the "correct" interpretation. 
But you shouldn't go looking for any deeper meaning. When I first registered 
the project, way back then, I simply did not spend a whole lot of time 
thinking about a good name. I stuck to the constraint that the name should 
contain the letters R and K. "Ark" and "Kross" were taken, already, and I 
didn't think much beyond that. So that's how RKWard ended up with its awkward 
name. I guess it's not the name that I would pick today, but I still sort of 
like the self-referential aspect of it...

> Another
> has the incredible hypothesis that you actually pronounce it Rkward, but
> that is really awkward too. So... how to pronounce it?

Actually, that pronounciation is totally fine with me, as well. Whatever you 
feel is least (or most) awkward.

Regards
Thomas
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