I guess I touched a nerve. My apologies if no humor was seen in my last message. The phone number worked, I just sent $50 via E*Trade. (That's what I used to pay for the Redhat CDs - not that I used them, but I would have felt like a leech just downloading their ISOs.)
The string "Kelleher" is sufficient criteria, it's not a common name. I haven't gone through my old account records so I can only hope I remembered to send you that check. I'm not a big fan of gentle reminders. After the first email went unanswered I decided to prokove a response - I'll admit it's not always a good technique (ok, it's rather immature) but it was effective in this case. As for including the Technical Committee, I have to strongly disagree. Their duties definitely impact Debian's finances. I didn't donate because I was asked, instead I was freely given a very nice Linux distribution due to the hard work of people the Technical Committee represents and in return I decided to give something back. --- Branden Robinson / SPI Treasurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:03:30PM -0700, Jason D. Kelleher wrote: > > Unfortunately, all the time apt-get saves me is more than > > lost by mailing a paper check or emailing the SPI Treasurer to > > setup a wire transfer. I even tried to send you a paper > > check through my E*Trade account, but it requires a valid > > phone number for the recipient... no good. > > You can use the Treasuer's home phone number, if you want. > > +1 317 841 8285 > > Note that this number is subject to change when a new person > becomes > Treasurer. > > > I emailed the SPI Treasurer regarding this sometime last > > January (Yes, I'm "keep[ing] in mind that the duties of the > > SPI Treasurer are at present undertaken by a volunteer, not by > > a paid employee of SPI.") regarding some form of Credit Card or > > Paypal payment and received no response. > > I have one mail from you ever (if the string "Kelleher" is a > sufficient > search criterion); it was dated Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:08:14 -0700 > (PDT). > > It said only this: > > Do you have plans to setup an online donation system > through a > service such as Paypal? It would make it much easier for > me to > show my appreciation every couple of 'apt-get install > upgrade' > runs. Meanwhile, I guess I'll just slow-mail you a check. > > Thanks for the nice distribution. > > I suggest that it might be more satisfying to send a gentle > reminder to > someone after a couple of weeks, instead of waiting 13 months for a > reply and then getting so upset that you mail a bunch of people who > don't have power to do anything about the issue, like Debian's > Technical > Committee, whose duties do not impact Debian's finances in any way > at > all. > > http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution > > Furthermore, the SPI Board has in fact discussed electronic payment > processing; see, for example: > > http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/minutes/20020507 > > You might want to scroll down to "Merchant account update". > > Regarding wire transfers, you have never contacted me to make > arrangements for this; I do not know how to satisfy expectations > you do > not express. > > > So now I'm asking the Debian Organization and SPI Board - I > > can't give you time, please help me give you money. > [...] > > P.S. The co-worker who convinced me to switch from Redhat to > > Debian a year ago is standing over my shoulder laughing > > hysterically, but I'm serious. And he's more than willing to > > pay too if it doesn't involve paper checks. > > I regret that SPI does not currently have infrastructure in place > to > support the means of making donations that you would most prefer. > All I > can ask is that you remain patient. As the SPI Board processes its > backlog of minutes, you'll be able to read more about this issue. > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | Never underestimate the > power of > Debian GNU/Linux | human stupidity. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein > http://www.deadbeast.net/~branden/ | > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
