Wikimedia already has a bank account in Belgium. Jakob Voss wrote: > Any File wrote: > >>> It might be a good thing to add the ability >>> of bank transfer, maybe even through a WMF-account that they transfer it >>> together to you? (to reduce costs for international and inter-valuta >>> traffic) >> This may be a good idea, but it may have some legal implication. Who >> would be the entity that collect the money and at what title would do that. > > [...] >> If such a thing would be set up, not only the people in that country >> could benefit, but also the people in many other countries in Europe >> since the transfer fee to another EU country would be minimal compared >> to an EU/Taiwan transfer. > > In 2005 Wikimania Foundation was given access to a bank account held by > Wikimedia Germany. I don't know whether Wikimania Germany can offer this > for Wikimania 2007 but I'll ask our treasurer. A bank account within the > EU would at least help EU citizen because transfer fee within EU is zero > (of course there is transfer fee between EU and taiwan but it's probably > less if money is transfered collected). Maybe we could set up a > procedure where you weekly send Wikimedia Germany the list of people > with keywords and Wikimedia Germany checks whether money has been > recieved or not. > > Greetings, > Jakob > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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