On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Brian Gupta wrote: > If you aren't a Paypal user, and don't wish to use Paypal, adding Paypal > support will have minimum impact on the processes you have been using.
> There a a number of things that should be made clear: > 1) We have no plans to EVER make Paypal the only way to donate to Debian. > 2) We don't plan to keep significant funds stored in Paypal. > 3) Every Trusted Organization that Debian works with either currently accepts > Paypal, or plans to. > 4) Paypal does not require the use of any non-DFSG compliant software, > including Javascript to make donations. Because of this, most of our > peer Free Software organization accept Paypal. > 5) Accepting Paypal does not preclude us from exploring other, new, > payment processing systems, as long as they allow us to integrate > with them without using non-DFSG software, and don't require > donors to use non-DFSG software. If you have a system you'd > like us to integrate with, we're willing to explore it, with the caveat > we don't have a lot of human bandwidth, so it would likely take > time to evaluate and integrate new services. > Please weigh in. Some possible responses might be: > 1) I use Paypal, and would be grateful for this addition > 2) I don't use Paypal, but wouldn't mind this being a choice for those that do > 3) I don't use Paypal, and am opposed to making this an option > 4) $%^& Paypal, what about Bitcoin? > 5) I don't care, I trust folks working on fundraising to make sane decisions FWIW -- since there were not much of follow up. I think it is a great development which would indeed bring more funds to the Debian project. When I have suggested a few years back to accept donations via PayPal the main argument against was a possibility of having PayPal freeze the account which accepts funds, upon any "suspicious activity". I hope that you guys mitigated this possible problem (e.g. via some intermediate account destined solely to channel paypal money)? > If we don't hear back, at some point we'll move forward with adding a Paypal > option to https://www.debian.org/donations -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141215150949.gg7...@onerussian.com