Some of you may have noticed a PayPal 'donation' button on the front page of the forums, between the 'Related Links' and 'Board Statistics' sections. This is not a compulsory request, or an attempt to make anybody feel obliged to contribute, but if you think that the Outpost-42 website and these forums are useful tools to keep the local 501st Outpost organised, advertised and keep its constituent members in contact with each other, then feel free to use this Paypal link/button to make a donation towards the costs (note that it deals in US$). The unconfigured software for these forums costs approx. NZ$110 each year to license, and the 'Outpost42.co.nz' domain name services cost about NZ$30, each year, to keep active. The hosting for the website, forum, gallery and online backup takes up a proportion of general server space I subscribe to, equivalent to a cost of about NZ$300 for those 4 components.

A big thanks to those who have already made a contribution.

Cheers.

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For the sake of transparency, the following are the totals of the proportion of expenses covered by donations, by year (the latest year is a running total).

2005: 75%
2006: 60%
2007: 20%
2008: 45%
2009: 30%