This approach was instrumental to our early success & the way we worked with investors/donors. Chase and Grace worked so hard at raising our philanthropic round but being a small team it took a huge chunk of time away from product, operations, marketing, etc.
I hope other nonprofits can give this a try and have similar positive experiences.
One important factor for my choice in laptops is the physical attributes of the machine. IMO, Samsung and Apple, and to some extent Asus, have very well designed machines. Maybe I'm a little bit vain, but I'd like for my Linux laptop to look good too. That's one thing Apple always got right. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is rad, but I don't really like the way it looks. I'm not sure how to reconcile that.
ZaReason and System76 are awesome companies! I purchased a small notebook from ZaReason back in '08 but returned it because it was too underpowered. I would happily buy a laptop from either ZaReason or System76 if it was in the same vein of well designed hardware like the 3 companies I mentioned above.
I'm also very familiar with the Windows tax. A few years back I tried, very hard, to get HP to refund the Windows license on 2 desktops I bought for my dad. It was futile. Here are the blog posts from '09
Trust me, I hate seeing the little Windows 7 sticker and Windows super key on my laptop, but the hardware is good and I have no compatibility issues. Ideal? Nope. But good enough, and unfortunately that's what we Linux users have to contend with for now.
> unfortunately that's what we Linux users have to contend with for now.
And my point is that any sale of a Lenovo Thinkpad does zilch to solve it, and only reinforces their position of Windows-only. So if you do go and buy that ASUS / Samsung / Apple notebook, and put Linux on it, that means the next time you are looking for a notebook, you will have to do the exact same thing because nobody is buying Linux machines to show the market there is any demand.
Well that would be because I didn't know about the delayed extensions :) Will update the post accordingly.
And regarding .send… d'oh! I'm actually using .deliver in my code and changed it just before pressing publish. What can I say? It was 4am and I wasn't thinking properly.
Good question. $1.5M is a lot of amount of money, but it will by no means fund all the patients, so there will always be treatments for donors to fund.
Good catch. While the site isn't served over SSL, the actual Wufoo form is. And Stripe (who we're using to process the payments) only allows payments over SSL (https://stripe.com/help/ssl) so your information is safe.
Admirable, but this doesn't really help the scenario where the outer page is intercepted and modified to serve a different iframe. (This is a common attack on pages that e.g. serve login forms over http, even though the form submits to https. Just change the form in-flight.)
