Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

[Nuritzi Sanchez]

Hi Andre,

Thanks for sending that article! We may try to reach out to BitGive to see
how it's going for them.

To clarify, we know that accepting bitcoin donations is possible as a
501(c)(3), but we're not sure it makes sense for the GNOME Foundation to do
so. We've started to investigate and it seems like some organizations who
initially accepted bitcoin donations decided to stop, because of
complications, and some organizations who do it have more complicated steps
for doing it rather than just having a BitPay account. We're trying to
learn more about how others are doing it, why, and what the trade-offs /
ramifications are.

If any of you have been involved with this kind of research for other
Foundations in the past, or if you are particularly interested in the topic
and want to help research, let us know :)

In the meantime, we will not be closing down our BitPay account and will
continue to do more research so that we understand how the Foundation would
be impacted by making it possible to donate bitcoins.

Best,
Nuritzi


On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Andre Klapper  wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 14:52 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> > I bet it'd be interesting to other 501c3s like Mozilla  > > i.mozilla.org/Ways_to_Give#Bitcoin>,
> > > Tor , or the
> > > handful pages
> > > of Google results for "501c3 anonymous donation bitcoin".
>
> http://www.coindesk.com/bitgive-becomes-first-irs-tax-
> exempt-bitcoin-charity/
> implies that orgs under 501(c)(3) status can accept bitcoins.
>
> andre
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Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

[Andre Klapper]

On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 14:52 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> I bet it'd be interesting to other 501c3s like Mozilla  > i.mozilla.org/Ways_to_Give#Bitcoin>,
> > Tor , or the
> > handful pages 
> > of Google results for "501c3 anonymous donation bitcoin".

http://www.coindesk.com/bitgive-becomes-first-irs-tax-exempt-bitcoin-charity/
implies that orgs under 501(c)(3) status can accept bitcoins.

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Website stats for 2016

[Andreas Nilsson]

Tom is doing awesome work on the gnome.org website currently.
We chatted the other day on irc about different data points, such as 
screen resolutions, browser support that had to be considered. Since 
I've been looking at these numbers for two days now, I thought I might 
share some of the results over the last year (Jan 1st to today).
Hopefully it can provide some insights on how we could make our website 
better.




Operating System

GNU/Linux47%
Windows  34%
MacOS7%
Android  7%
iOS  3%



Device type

Desktop  89%
Smartphone   7%
Tablet   2%



Screen Resolution

1366x768 24.8%
1920x108023.1%
1600x900 5.3%
1280x10244.5%
1440x900 4.4%



Browser

Chrome  35.1%
Firefox 30.7%
Safari  11.1%
Chrome Mobile   4.7%
Internet Explorer   2.9%



Visits by day of the week

Monday14%
Tuesday   15%
Wednesday 15%
Thursday  15%
Friday15%
Saturday  13%
Sunday13%



Pages

gnome.org index  52.1%
gnome-3  16.1
getting-gnome13.2%
news 5%
technologies 5%
about2.2%
get involved 2%
foundation   1.6%
fonts0.8%
friends  0.4%



- Andreas

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Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

[Allan Day]

Hi all,

Just to let you know - the board is still pursuing this. We've reached out
to some other organisations and got some information back. There's a bit
more research to do, but we're making progress.

Allan

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez <
nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

> Hi Tobi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Tobias Mueller 
> wrote
>>
>>
>> > I bet it'd be interesting to other 501c3s like Mozilla <
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Ways_to_Give#Bitcoin>,
>> > Tor , or the
>> handful pages
>> > of Google results for "501c3 anonymous donation bitcoin".
>> If not, has any effort been made to reach out to at least one of the
>> various 501c3 orgs which accept Bitcoin?  Is it planned to talk to any
>> of those orgs before not accepting Bitcoin?  Do you need help
>> establishing contact?
>>
>
> This got pushed back in our agenda as we were focused on ED search
> matters, but we discussed bitcoin again during yesterday's meeting and we
> are reaching out to other orgs that do it this week. We were advised that
> FSF and Wikimedia Foundation both have these types of accounts.
>
> It was suggested we reach out to FSF first. If you have other orgs in mind
> besides those two, let us know.
>
> Best,
> Nuritzi
>
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