Hi there! On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:53:44 +0100, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:15 AM, David Forstner wrote: > >> i want to donate a little money to the debian project, because i am using it >> as a webserver. > > Great, please take a look at our donations page: > > http://www.debian.org/donations This is fine. > http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/ This is IMHO not: SPI accepts donations not only for Debian ;-) >> it would be very cool to buy a debian-tshirt from you guys and at the same >> time support the project. > > Debian itself doesn't sell merchandise This is questionable, given that some Trusted Organizations provide merchandise. However, this is still an open question: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613832#49> > but there are several external > organisations who do. Some of them also support Debian using the > proceeds of their sales, please take a look at the links on these > pages: > > http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise > http://wiki.debian.org/Merchandise > http://www.debian.org/events/material Reminder for myself and the Events Team: this page needs some love. > SPI Inc (the holder of Debian money) This is not true, since any Trusted Organization holds Debian money: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634986#10> <http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_003> > does not accept donations via > Paypal, please see the donations page for alternatives: > > http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/ In the case of the original sender, ffis seems a better alternative (IIRC gmx.net is a Germany-based email provider). > Transparency in our spending is currently a work in progress. We spend > money on hardware, DebConf, sprints, domains, trademarks and other > things. > > http://debconf.org/ > http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints > http://www.debian.org/trademark IIRC at the DebConf10 Merchandise BoF there was a discussion about such a "donation" page, similar to the one Debian-UK once had: <http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/683.en.html> <http://lists.debian.org/1280797816.9104.172.camel@gismo.pca.it> Reminder for myself and the Events Team: we need to finalize this. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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