Since not everyone might read the Community Ideas Forum, I've decided to post this here. As you all have probably heard, we are looking for ways to keep this site from further draining the personal resources of Jack and Ed. Many of you have asked to make donations. Unfortunately, monetary donations don't feel like the right thing to do, so we asked for other ideas. Steve Shanks (of PoserWorld fame) and Rena (the FairyWoods goddess) came up with one of the best so far. "How about a load of us make a model or two and put it in the store at 100% profit to renderosity, this way we can help out and not worry about contributions, heck if you really want to give the site some cash you can buy 3 of the models :o) knowing that all the profit is going to the site.anyway you have my 150% support and if its a go Rena and I will will work our hardest to produce a kick ass piece that everyone will want ........come on I'm hyped up and raring to go what do you all say........Steve" For those of you who would like to donate a model (or texture, set of poses, etc) for sale in the Community Support section of the Online Store, we've set up a thread in Community Ideas to keep in touch about what everyone is planning to do. That way we will avoid duplicate efforts. http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12375&Form.ShowMessage=116621 Bast and I will be coordinating getting your donations into the store, so please let one of us know when you have something ready. Bast can be reached at hbg@kreative.net You can reach me at DTHUREGRIF@aol.com I'd like to thank all who plan to participate in advance for your support. Diane

I also wish to thank all in advance for your efforts to support the forum and it's overhead. Diane and I will work closely with each contributor to ensure that your work is the most desirable and salable it can be made to be. I am willing to give any help to any of you that my technical skills cover in working on your donation projects. For a very short idea of our current submission process (though Diane and I are working to get a more carefully detailed submission process posted soon): 1) Send Diane and myself both a simple and not too large rendering from 3 or 4 angles of the proposed piece by email to hbg@kreative.net and DTHUREGRIF@aol.com. This begins the submission process. 2) We will within 24 hours confirm that we have received your proposal and renders, and within 72 hours attempt to send back some response, suggestions or even just ask you to go to the next step, which is sending us the files for testing. 3) At this stage we arrange for you to send us the actual files, even if they are in a stage where you may need to make some suggested modifications, so we can begin doing some testing on both our machines for basic usability, since we wish all items in the store to be of only the highest standards of quality for our purchasers. 4) Once the model or contributed project is in a satisfactory condition, you will be contacted by Jack and Ed to work out any details needing still to be worked out, and we will begin moving to getting your product on display in the store :) Here to help in any way I can! Liz Birdsong hbg@kreative.net

I'm not a modeller. How about a Merchandise thing, with T-Shirts, Stickers, Coffee- Mugs? I don't know anything about that(is it much work?). And I don't have a Credit-Card(is plastic-Money real???) plus I live overseas. It's just an Idea I want to throw in here.

Ah Zottel, we cannot all be modelers, and indeed the store wishes to carry alot more than models! Textures, cool morphs of existing models we all have, cool morphs of Vicki, Tutorials on how to do some neat trick we always wanted to know how to do... etc. The store should carry not only all the things it takes to create lovely art, but also INFORMATION, since what makes our community so unique is the vast stores of knowhow we have in total here. As to mugs and mousepads... that is a great idea for down the road, but would not help out in this immediate need, since producing things of that nature takes capital (and we are low of even the most basic capital to keep the site up with), and also it takes "storage space" and mailing things, and well... as Amazon.com found out, running a virtual store with hard merchandise, instead of solely electronic merchandise, is alot harder than one ever imagined. Thus them suddenly having to build 11 warehouses last year ;P

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