Relay of Jan-Christoph: just to log here because I don't get the mails: "The money is missing and there is no way to get it." – If we don't do anything the money is 'missing' as well. We shouldn't operate on vague possibilities.
As for the PayPal stuff: Flattr might be 'new' but was explicitly made so people can easily donate. And it works. Debian people and lots of podcasters are just some among the users. I personally know people from Flattr and they are trustworthy. PayPal regularly fucks people over and keeps money. On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Michael Grosser <[email protected] > wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Cornelius Schumacher > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Saturday 08 October 2011 Michael Grosser wrote: >> > >> > So why not get to the point and have dedicated donations for owncloud >> and >> > let them be handled from kde? It even would be possible to let a >> community >> > member handle the flattr account and make a transaction to kde every few >> > months. >> >> If a community member has the account it's a private account with all the >> risks and problems. It might sound like theory, but what happens when the >> community member doesn't care anymore, and doesn't reply to any requests? >> The >> money is missing and there is no way to get it. Stuff like this does >> happen, >> so I would avoid it. >> > > It's easily avoidable. Just reach out to flattr. Or use a > [email protected] mail and it can be redirected if someone isn't > answering. > > >> >> > Then it would be legally alright (using KDE), ownCloud would still be >> > supported from the common pool, but it would be a dedicated labeled >> account >> > for future changes and easy user recognizability. >> >> As I said, a dedicated account and dedicated donations can have some >> issues. >> So instead of going with something new like a flattr account, I would >> recommend to just use the existing infrastructure and put something like >> "if >> you want to financially support ownCloud donate to KDE e.V." on the >> ownCloud >> web page and in the release announcement. We have Paypal donations buttons >> we >> can use for that, if you prefer a real button. >> > I thought the good thing about being open is the ability to use something > new and I would really appreciate ownCloud being open and modern, so give > the user at least the ability to not use paypal. > I'm not saying we can't integrate a paypal button for kde on the > contribution page, but I like the idea of flattr and I would love this > account to be dedicated, even if it just is a dedicated account for > dedicated labeling. > > >> >> -- >> Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]> >> _______________________________________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud >> > >
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