Re: [E-devel] Anonymous CVS & Servers - YOU CAN HELP!

[Nathan Ingersoll]

I've had a couple of questions related to donations for the server and what guarantees you receive with a donation. I'd like to address those before people jump the gun, and raster can weigh in on this when he wakes up.

Short answer: none.

Long answer: The money will go towards something to benefit the project. Right now we're discussing a server, and if that plan goes forward, we will need to raise a reasonable amount of money. If for some reason that plan were to fall through (hosting provider backs out, good free hosting becomes a better option, etc), I really don't want to be in the position of refunding money. So I can only guarantee that it will be used for something related to E. Could be a server, or maybe sending raster to a conference, who knows. I have not made a withdrawal since we started taking donations, about a year ago, so I can't give previous examples of what we have done in the past.

Unless someone else wants to collect the money for the server and deal with refunding in the eventuality that plans change, we may want to look at something like fundable.org, at least until we are closer to our goal. If you just want the money to go to the project in general (which will be applied to the server if we go that route), then the Paypal donations previously mentioned will work fine.

Thanks,
Nathan