On 3 December 2011 11:15, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:04, Swaroop Rao <raul.swar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> BTW, I forgot to update; Patricia (from the fundraising team I suppose) >> just told me that they're working on Debit card and other means of payment >> for INR this year. > > Oh, wasn't aware of it, yes I do understand the legal procedure and country wise legal system is the main hurdle here, so hope the best for the next year. > > One more thing, it seems, even the fundraising team did not plan INR for > 2011 and INR happened accidentally when their payments partner seem to > support it. So we cannot expect everything smooth on the first time which > was not even planned. (Debit cards, Netbanking, not using VBV/MSC etc). I > am hopeful that fundraiser team is working on it actively and might help > out solve those, may be from next year we will have a completely supported > fundraiser. > > >> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:44, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhash...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Thanks Sue, a quick question, forgive me if this thing has already been >>> taken to your consideration. >>> many Indians having no credit cards want to donate to WMF, is that >>> possible for the technical team to add Netbanking and Debit card payment >>> gateway for Indian banks. Secondly if this is not possible for this year is >>> that possible to inform the non credit card holders that they can possible >>> pay the Wikimedia India Chapter on behalf of WMF and the chapter can >>> transfer the funds later to the foundation. >>> >>> regards >>> Subha >>> >> > Subha, > > Its simple. Chapter CANNOT accept any payment(or claim that it can accept) > *on behalf* without a formal agreement. Chapter cannot enter into formal > agreement due to FCRA laws. There is no point in talking about this in 11th > hour, there was a chance in May 2011, chapter worked towards it, but was > not able to beat the legal hurdles, we just need to wait one more year. > > -- > Regards > Srikanth.L > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- * ସୁ ଭା ସି ସ ପା ଣି ଗା ହି ** S u b h a s i s a P a n i g a h i ** ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki *
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