There are ways to make small (or larger, within-credit-limit) personal donations to the ASF. PayPal is accepted [;<).
I haven't tried it to see if one can even make a comment to indicate that the donation is in honor of ASF accepting the OOo incubator. That is not the same as making or accepting a targeted donation, of course. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 13:35 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Targeted Donations? On 12 September 2011 19:56, FR web forum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > >> If AOOo did this, it would be completely new (and IMHO the Board would have >> to agree to it). > My query is just to have a formally answer to give at our users on the french > forum. > > We have sometime this question: "I want to donate, how can I do this?" > > What should I say to them? It depends on what they means by a "donation". If it is a significant donation then they should look at the sponsorship programme, see http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html If it is a small donation from an individual user we do not currently have a means for accepting such. Every now and then someone decides they are going to put a process in place to accept small donations. Each time it progresses a little further but at the time of writing it is not (as far as I'm aware) complete. Of course, if someone from OOo would like to help make this happen then we need to talk to fundraising@ to see what can be done. In the meantime perhaps the community could put together a list of external charities relating to the OO.o project and list these on the OO.o site? Ross Ross
