----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohammed Elzubeir) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:01:22 -0700 To: General Arabization Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Donations
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:17:58PM +0800, Ossama Khayat wrote: > > Assalamou Alaikom everyone, > > I've sent an email some time back about paying some donations to the Arabeyes > > project. > > (http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2003/June/msg00030.html) > > Still I didnt get any feed back other than from Nadim. > > Would someone (Mohamamd?) please provide me with some help on how would I be able > > to contribute with the amout I have so far ($300)? > > > > Salam, > > Ossama, I sincerely don't know how to handle this. We have talked about > this many times and it is a very complicated problem. The problem is > that we don't want any donations to Arabeyes to go to a personal bank > account. That means, it cannot be addressed to a person or to be cashed > to an individual. This left us with the PayPal option (at least it's > easier to track). I was checking with one of the Webmaster friends, and he told me that he is using CashU cards for his website (www.cashucard.com), which is a facility to buy a card from a shop which has equivelent amount of money you can pay. I don't know if this works for our project. > > The other option (and the more 'final') solution would be to incorporate > Arabeyes and give it legal status. This would allow us to open bank > accounts under the Arabeyes name. Since I have been to Bahrain and now > Dubai,UAE I have met with many lawyers. The consensus I have received > from my discussions about the project is that this is going to be a very > long and complex process. Arabeyes is not "tangible" as an organization > and the whole purpose of it is very strange and suspecious (money > laundering, terrorism, etc). The concept of Open Source and volunteerism > in that way is simply too radical for the legal framework of these > countries. What can I say? > > The last time Nadim and I were talking about this and we decided that he > would check out registering us as a non-profit organization in the US. I > hope it would not be complicated given the current political environment > (but I bet you it is less complicated than doing it here). Once we are > registered there, it may be easier to get us registered here (in Dubai). That would be great. I hope we could do something to make it easier for more people to donate. > > Until then, I am open to suggestions.. as I really don't know how else > to handle this. > OK, this is what I could get so far ;) > Thanks > Mohammed Elzubeir regards, Ossama Khayat -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
