A question about donation
Dear Debian developer,
I'm an Italian Debian user and I like your product, your philosophy
and the spirit of GNU, FSF and so on.
Then, I'd like to contribute with a donation of 50 USD (small,
but important for me, a poor worker :)
And the question is if you can choose some link from where I can
donate only money, without the need to buy CDs.
I think those link may be posted in
"http://www.spi-inc.org/donations";
or
"http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/";
I asked also to the SPI treasurer (after you find the message),
but he said you can/have to find and keep updated those links.
I guess there are vendors that let me donate only money
(I found them in "http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/";),
but me, and I think more and more peoples, would like
that donating money would be a little easy.
Thanks for the patience, and thanks thanks thanks for
your fantastic work.
Stefano Spinucci
Italy
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MESSAGE SENT SOME DAYS AGO TO THE TREASURER
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:33:50AM +0100, pyxis@libero.it wrote:
> I want to donate bot I guess why you don't use a more
> friendly way to make donations (for donators) like PayPal
> or a Credit Card processor (choose you what you want).
This has been discussed in the past, and there are drawbacks to both
approaches, particularly PayPal.
SPI probably may be contracting with a credit card processor in the
future, however this point is still under discussion.
> Excuse me for the question, but If I donate 20 USD
> to Debian, I dislike to pay 10 USD to my bank for the
> money transfer (I live in Italy).
I don't blame you. In the meantime you might see if ffis e.V. is a more
attractive option; see <http://www.ffis.de/Verein/spi-en.html>.
> Alternatively, why you don't place in the page
> "http://www.spi-inc.org/donations"; a link to a CD vendor
> who accept donation to Debian (I mean a SECURE CD vendor
> that send you ALL the money I donate).
The Debian Project is a member project of SPI; it is Debian's
responsibility to provide such links. It's also far more likely that
people directly involved with the Debian Project will be able to keep
such links up-to-date (while there is currently much overlap between
Debian developers and SPI contributing members, this overlap is not
guaranteed to be permanent).
> PS
> ALL THE LINK TO EMAIL YOU IN THE ITALIAN PAGE ARE WRONG!!!!!
I am CCing this message to the SPI webmaster for this reason.
> PPS
> Many thanks for the good work.
> Open source, for me, is the future of the free computing,
> and it's a good thing for everyone in the world.
Thank you very much for your support. I hope that we can make more
satisfactory arrangements for you and other Italian supporters of Debian
and SPI in the future.
--
G. Branden Robinson, Treasurer
Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
treasurer@spi-inc.org
http://www.spi-inc.org/
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