Whether you want to donate to help us help BlackCoin is your option, but some of us are trying to do the business of BlackCoin and it's not free, that's a simple fact. We understand that there are many BlackCoin holders who are not involved and don't want to be involved, that's another unfortunate fact, but we highly value the people that are and we hope their trust in us will be rewarded. There's a lot going on with BlackCoin that most don't see, but we would love for more people to become involved with your thoughts and ideas. Speak up! "No" is a useless waste of everybody's time. If you've got a better long term funding strategy, we'd love to hear it.
Figuring out a way to reliably fund continued development should be the #1 goal of every coin. BlackCoin has always seemed to recognize that, which is great. A better model than "devs work for free" and "please donate!" has to exist though. I would suggest focusing on building fees into ancillary services like BlackHalo, and route a portion of those fees back into core development.
In the case of David Zimbeck, he is his own man and BlackHalo is his baby, neither BlackCoin, nor the BlackCoin Foundation have any say so in what is or is not included. David has represented BlackCoin at various functions this summer, but both Halo projects are his. To me, it appears David is out to change the world on his terms and as of now, it appears he wants to do that in his own way. I am beyond ecstatic that David chose to build his program on the BlackCoin platform, but that was his call as is everything he is currently doing with it. He is coordinating with the foundation and you can expect to hear some surprising news out of David soon.