Donation
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Would love to donate to the 'cause' but I'm not using "Paypal".....sorry!
Tom
Le Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:15:21 +0100 (CET),
name at domain a écrit :
> Would love to donate to the 'cause' but I'm not using
> "Paypal".....sorry! Tom
I personally donate by wire transfer, even if I need to pay a charge.
me donates w/o Paypal too.
am using IBAN/SWIFT as printed here: http://trisquel.info/en/donate
for me that's within Europe and with no charge
It's too bad this isn't based in the USA as a 501(c)3 non profit. The forming of a software foundation is all the rage these days with control of a technology in the hands of a open community and not a corporation or single person entity.
I don't believe I can write off a donation to Trisquel in its current state and donating to an overseas account can bring up red flags.
Plus, Ruben doesn't dedicate enough time to this project nor does he interact with us enough to make me comfortable to hand over hundreds of dollars to a person in Spain that I have no easy means to make contact with.
Le Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:54:41 +0100 (CET),
name at domain a écrit :
> It's too bad this isn't based in the USA as a 501(c)3 non profit. The
> forming of a software foundation is all the rage these days with
> control of a technology in the hands of a open community and not a
> corporation or single person entity.
As it is free, it's not in the hands of a single person. Anybody can
reuse the code.
>
> I don't believe I can write off a donation to Trisquel in its current
> state and donating to an overseas account can bring up red flags.
I quite have the same problem donating to american projects.
>
> Plus, Ruben doesn't dedicate enough time to this project nor does he
> interact with us enough to make me comfortable to hand over hundreds
> of dollars to a person in Spain that I have no easy means to make
> contact with.
How do you know Rubén is not dedicating enough time to this project? I
suppose he is dedicating as much time as he can. So, please let him
quiet.
I am a member!
The future is not written therefor it´s up for grab, but when I see the
present in front of me, all I see is a nice distribution call Trisquel
with whatever DE you choose, (Xfce in my case) that help me do the
things I need, while not only respecting, but also embracing freedom.
The reason I donate is because of the product that is in my hands and
not because of the product that perhaps it will be. When the time comes
judgement will be made, but until then, Trisquel will have me as a member.
Regards,
I share Lemuriano's reasons for contributing as an associate member; he expressed them very well. It's mainly of way of thanking the developers for the beautiful distribution that we have today, and hoping that this contribution will enable them to continue working on it.
Paypal is a cancer and people deservedly distrust it
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/proposed-policies-procedures-solutions#toc8
"Paypal is a cancer and people deservedly distrust it"
There are indeed many problems with PayPal (their handling of
WikiLeaks is one problem) which is why I'm boycotting them.
It seems that it may be possible for the FSF to process the donations,
based on this message:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2013-01/msg00008.html
"It's too bad this isn't based in the USA as a 501(c)3 non profit. The
forming of a software foundation is all the rage these days with
control of a technology in the hands of a open community and not a
corporation or single person entity."
There is much involved in setting up such an organization and I'm not
sure that a Trisquel Foundation is needed this time. Even if it were,
joining the Software Freedom Conservancy might be a better option that
spinning up our own non-profit organization.
Not to mention that Bkuhn's a really cool guy. :) So Conservancy is a generally good place to be, if you want the benefits of organisation.
As far as processing transactions for donations has anyone looked into using ACH payments? I don't know a ton about them and I know that many companies use ACH to pay their vendors. I found a project that looks like it might be worth looking into. It's called OpenACH and can be found at openach.com
Looks pretty flexible as a payment option. I'm not sure how flexible the software is or what kinks might come up.
I am a member!
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