Reinke Bonte wrote:
Would you be able to use the www.c2it.com service? I believe that
the GnuCash Foundation would be able to receive funds there. I do
not know if there would be fees to you to send money.I have checked their website, but I have found no way to transmit money with this service from outside the US. This is all about sending money from the US to somewhere.I don't find this service particularly cheap. For international transactions, you have to pay at least $10 per transaction, that is almost the same as the standard rate of my bank, and my bank gives me a much better exchange rate. The spread of the c2it service exchange rate is five times as big as that of my bank (and I think of most other banks here).
Yes, I agree with Reinke about that this service is quite expensive.
No, nobody has to "give up" the tip jar idea. It just turns out that finding an international solution is more difficult than it initially occurred.Has anybody tried to send international transactions with an account at the postal office. A transfer of any amount up to 12,500 euro from a German postal office account to a Japanese postal office account costs exactly 0.50 euro. I don't know whether there is a postal bank system in the US. Anyway, I think it is probably best to have one responsible person per region or give up the tip jar idea.
IMHO we should simply say that electronical methods for donating money can only be provided within the US. Money transfers from/to non-US countries should simply be done as cash in a letter, if at all. [With the exception that some non-US countries have their own well-working bank system where transferring of small amounts of money works quite well -- e.g. if there are German users out there who want to give a tip to a German developer, the developer would simply give them his bank account number (recall that this is *not* a privacy risk in the German bank system) and they make a bank transfer to his account.]
Anyway. In cbbrowne's proposed Gift exchange registry http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/fssp.html this would already be represented through the fact that a gift is given from one person to another person personally. The technical detail of how the amount is transferred is thus independent of the act of giving, and can be freely negotiated between the receiving person and the sending person. And each receiving person can easily name a number of different ways for sending money to him that work well.
Therefore I still support cbbrowne's approach, which means that we do *not* set up one central tip jar for the gnucash project where some agency/whatever then distributes these tips back to the developers. Instead the distribution of tips between developers is already done by each patron him/herself, but cbbrowne's central Gift Exchange Registry helps everyone to keep track of who contributes anything and who recieves anything.
Christian
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