Re: donations and paypal

2014-12-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
there were not much of follow up. I think it is a great development which would indeed bring more funds to the Debian project. When I have suggested a few years back to accept donations via PayPal the main argument against was a possibility of having PayPal freeze the account which accepts funds

Re: donations and paypal

2014-12-15 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
donations via PayPal the main argument against was a possibility of having PayPal freeze the account which accepts funds, upon any suspicious activity. I hope that you guys mitigated this possible problem (e.g. via some intermediate account destined solely to channel paypal money)? We transfer from

Re: donations and paypal

2014-12-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Brian Gupta wrote: As someone who's pretty heavily involved in fundraising for Debian, I'd like to express my support for adding Paypal to the list of official methods to donate to Debian. And if I can add a data point, PayPal is already mentioned on the donation page

Re: donations and paypal

2014-12-10 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Sylvestre Ledru sylves...@debian.org wrote: On 17/11/2014 10:15, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 17/11/14 at 16:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@

Re: donations and paypal

2014-11-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi David, On 16/11/14 at 18:31 -0400, David Prévot wrote: Hi, Le 16/11/2014 15:23, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : (resending to -www@, #681501 is now archived) Resending to project, and setting follow-up-to accordingly: this is about the public image of the project, it’s not limited to the

Re: donations and paypal

2014-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@ without making it clear that you did that (by forwarding it instead of bouncing it, for example). FTR, I was the one who bounced the message, not David. -- bye,

Re: donations and paypal

2014-11-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/11/14 at 16:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@ without making it clear that you did that (by forwarding it instead of bouncing it, for example). FTR, I was the

Re: donations and paypal

2014-11-17 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 17/11/2014 10:15, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 17/11/14 at 16:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: However, this is not a reason to bounce my email from -www@ to -project@ without making it clear that you did that (by forwarding it instead of

Re: donations and paypal

2014-11-16 Thread David Prévot
agree that Paypal is far from a perfect service, for several reasons. We should clearly continue to offer alternative options for donations. However, I don't think that the known problems with Paypal are bad enough to surpass the the benefits of accepting donations via Paypal. Also, TTBOMK

donations and paypal

2014-11-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
donations via Paypal. Also, TTBOMK, the problems with Paypal are unrelated to Debian's main goals: for example, it doesn't require the use of proprietary software (even javascript). Paypal has also been used successfully already by Debian, e.g. for the OPW fundraising efforts. So I think that Paypal