Bug#681501: Donations to Debian will soon be easier!

[Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com>]

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:40:20 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:56:55PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> 
>> Several of possibilities: * mid term: get an UsaEpay API key for 
>> debian at (which Brian said they are SPI authorized processors), 
>> same as http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate_pg_org/
> 
> We now have a USA ePay API key for Debian!
> 
> Brian recruited me to help out with this issue, we discussed the 
> approach at length on IRC and I spent a few hours tweaking and
> came up with the attached replacement page (HTML and WML), online 
> version:
> 
> https://people.debian.org/~pabs/tmp/donations.en.html
> 
> It is inspired by a combination of these donation pages:
> 
> https://donate.fsf.org/ http://opensource.org/donate 
> https://riseup.net/donate 
> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/donate/ 
> https://www.torproject.org/donate/
> 
> It uses these principles:
> 
> * One up-front donation method that is relatively easy * A table
> of options for other donation types, listing the details so people
> can choose the method that works for them.
> 
> I tried to prepare a form similar to USA ePay for Click & Pledge 
> but they seem to have some sort of security system in place 
> preventing that, you can uncomment the form in the HTML to check
> it out.
> 
> The list of organisations is incomplete but it is fairly easy to 
> add more (commented out templates are in the WML).
> 
> I mentioned crypto-currencies in the Debian section but made it 
> vague because I am not aware of the current status (hi Martin!).
> 
> The equipment section could also use some input by DSA and the 
> DebConf video team I think. Once the new page is online I can 
> contact them.

This is a major improvement. I don't see any reason to hold back
pushing this out, as we can always fine-tune it later. I'd say at this
point, push it out, and if there are any suggestions for further
improvement,  we can always incorporate it into a later revision.
(Frankly, I don't see any scenario where someone could consider this a
regression.)

Cheers,
Brian

> 
> -- bye, pabs
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
> 
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