Still Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-04-23 Thread Colin Percival
Dear FreeBSD users, On April 4th, I thought that I had reached my donations target for funding my summer of FreeBSD security development, and asked people to stop sending further donations. Sadly, it seems that this assessment was premature, as it relied upon two large pledges, and it now

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-04-05 Thread Marko Lerota
Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Donations can be sent by paypal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; if you would prefer to send a cheque (which is probably only worthwhile for cheques in Canadian or US dollars), please contact me by email to obtain my mailing address. In either case, please let

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-04-05 Thread Marko Lerota
Ian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In terms of cross-border payments, this is always difficult. You might want to look at one of the cross-border specialists like Kagi.com or moneybookers.com or the digital gold currencies. OK, thanks. But it's not only the Colin issue. The FreeBSD project

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-04-05 Thread Frode Nordahl
On 30. mar. 2006, at 22.20, Colin Percival wrote: Slightly more than three years ago, I released FreeBSD Update, my first major contribution to FreeBSD. Since then, I have become a FreeBSD committer, joined the FreeBSD Security Team, released Portsnap, and become the FreeBSD Security

methods of payment (was: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development)

2006-03-31 Thread Marco Molteni
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:00:37 +0200 Marko Lerota [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, thanks. But it's not only the Colin issue. The FreeBSD project also can't be sponsored from here. what about good old postal money orders? Or maybe wester union ? marco

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-03-31 Thread Vlad GALU
On 3/31/06, Marko Lerota [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In terms of cross-border payments, this is always difficult. You might want to look at one of the cross-border specialists like Kagi.com or moneybookers.com or the digital gold currencies. OK, thanks.

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-03-31 Thread Colin Percival
Vlad GALU wrote: Bank orders should be just fine, assuming Colin tells us his IBAN account number and SWIFT code. I wish I could. Sadly, while Canadian banks are very good at handling payments to/from the US, they aren't very good at handling payments from outside of North America. When I

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-03-31 Thread Vlad GALU
On 3/31/06, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad GALU wrote: Bank orders should be just fine, assuming Colin tells us his IBAN account number and SWIFT code. I wish I could. Sadly, while Canadian banks are very good at handling payments to/from the US, they aren't very good at

Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-03-30 Thread Colin Percival
Dear FreeBSD users, Slightly more than three years ago, I released FreeBSD Update, my first major contribution to FreeBSD. Since then, I have become a FreeBSD committer, joined the FreeBSD Security Team, released Portsnap, and become the FreeBSD Security Officer. However, as I have gone from