Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-21 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 19 December 2013 at 4:22:05 PM, in mid:52b31d2d.8030...@enigmail.net, Olav Seyfarth wrote: One note: apart from the data privacy statement being not available in english The privacy policy is now in English. The Terms of

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-21 Thread Sam Tuke
Wow that's progress - clearly the newfound attention of 800 digital privacy advocates is having an effect at Goteo. Sam. MFPA expires2...@ymail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 19 December 2013 at 4:22:05 PM, in mid:52b31d2d.8030...@enigmail.net,

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-20 Thread Christophe Brocas
Le 19/12/2013 11:08, Werner Koch a écrit : GnuPG encryption project launches crowdfunding campaign Today GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) has launched its first crowdfunding campaign [1] with the aim of building a new website and long term infrastructure. The 24.000 EUR target will fund: - Fresh

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-20 Thread Sam Tuke
Yes we've reached 109% of the minimum goal - thanks to everyone who contributed for your support! Sam. Christophe Brocas christophe.bro...@cnamts.fr wrote: Le 19/12/2013 11:08, Werner Koch a écrit : GnuPG encryption project launches crowdfunding campaign Today GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) has

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-20 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 20/12/13 12:08, Sam Tuke wrote: Yes we've reached 109% of the minimum goal - thanks to everyone who contributed for your support! 111% of optimum now: EUR 24.151! In slightly more than a day. Congratulations! Very cool. Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-20 Thread Christophe Brocas
Le 20/12/2013 13:28, Peter Lebbing a écrit : On 20/12/13 12:08, Sam Tuke wrote: Yes we've reached 109% of the minimum goal - thanks to everyone who contributed for your support! 111% of optimum now: EUR 24.151! In slightly more than a day. Congratulations! Very cool. Peter. Bravo !

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 06:38:30PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Johannes Zarl wrote: Hi, Maybe my English is a little rusty, but what exactly is a spanking server? Presumably a contraction from brand spanking new a phrase normal common in England when I grew up there. This is also

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-20 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 19 December 2013 at 6:00:47 PM, in mid:87vbykwwj4@vigenere.g10code.de, Werner Koch wrote: A reason might be that they have concerns publishing a translation if not done by lawyer. However, the half-translated TOS would

[Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Werner Koch
GnuPG encryption project launches crowdfunding campaign Today GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) has launched its first crowdfunding campaign [1] with the aim of building a new website and long term infrastructure. The 24.000 EUR target will fund: - Fresh web interfaces for gnupg.org including mobile

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Christophe Brocas
Le 19/12/2013 11:08, Werner Koch a écrit : GnuPG encryption project launches crowdfunding campaign Today GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) has launched its first crowdfunding campaign [1] with the aim of building a new website and long term infrastructure. The 24.000 EUR target will fund: - Fresh

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Richard Ulrich
As this is about a crypto project, wouldn't it be adequate to accept payments in crypto currencies? Rgds Richard On Don, 2013-12-19 at 11:08 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: GnuPG encryption project launches crowdfunding campaign Today GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) has launched its first crowdfunding

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Martin Gollowitzer
* Richard Ulrich ricu...@gmail.com [131219 13:47, mID 1387457142.1836.18.camel@XPS13dev]: As this is about a crypto project, wouldn't it be adequate to accept payments in crypto currencies? I wouldn't consider this a priority. Bitcoin violates one of the fundamental laws of economics and is

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:17, christophe.bro...@cnamts.fr said: It is not very clear on the website campaign that the completion of the GnuPG 2.1 is in the scope of the campaign. GnuPG 2.1 will be ready with the new website or even earlier. However, 2.1 won't immediately replace 2.0 (or 1.4) on

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:45, ricu...@gmail.com said: As this is about a crypto project, wouldn't it be adequate to accept payments in crypto currencies? Agreed. However, we don't have the resources to do that. The new infrastructure topic covers payment options and likely we will accept

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:31, go...@fsfe.org said: point. Choosing goteo was IMHO a good idea because their system is Free Software and I don't know if they even support BTC et al. Indeed. After all crowd funding is about community building and thus I consider it the Right Thing to help each

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Werner, am 19.12.2013 11:08, schrieb Werner Koch: Today GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) has launched its first crowdfunding campaign [1] with the aim of building a new website and long term infrastructure. The 24.000 EUR target ...

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Werner all Re http://goteo.org The privacy policy and the terms or services are not translated to English - this is an unfortunate oversight of us. http://gnupg.org/ http://goteo.org/project/gnupg-new-website-and-infrastructure http://goteo.org/legal/terms Seems to be in mid edit

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Johannes Zarl
Hi, Maybe my English is a little rusty, but what exactly is a spanking server? From the goteo page: The world's most trusted data encryption tool gets a new website with spanking server, platform and design. Johannes ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Johannes Zarl wrote: Hi, Maybe my English is a little rusty, but what exactly is a spanking server? Presumably a contraction from brand spanking new a phrase normal common in England when I grew up there. I think brand spanking new server might also leave nationals of some other

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Maybe my English is a little rusty, but what exactly is a spanking server? They omitted the word new. Spanking new is an English idiom for something that's brand-new; it comes from the tradition of spanking a newborn child in order to spur the child into taking its first breath.

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I think brand spanking new server might also leave nationals of some other international english variant speaking countries (eg USA) non native speakers puzzled. It's in common usage in the U.S., although I more often hear it without the brand prefix. That said, brand spanking new is not

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:35, j...@berklix.com said: You might want to suggest to goteo.org it might be quicker for them to use a translater engine then hand correct, rather than translate type all ? A reason might be that they have concerns publishing a translation if not done by lawyer.

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Thursday 19 December 2013 10:09:22 Robert J. Hansen wrote: Maybe my English is a little rusty, but what exactly is a spanking server? They omitted the word new. Ah! I should have thought of this. The phrase as a whole is known to me, but without the new it was only nonsense to me... it

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
From: Johannes it comes from the tradition of spanking a newborn child in order to spur the child into taking its first breath. ...and I have learned something new today ;-) I didnt know the original derivation either :-) From: Werner I bet we will eventually hear about the NSA

Re: [Announce] GnuPG launches crowdfunding campaign

2013-12-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Seems likely. (Nice that some NSA activity has just been declared un-constitutional (glimpsed on TV)). A district court judge found the program unconstitutional, but his decision is *extremely* controversial right now. I would happily bet cash money on even odds that this decision will be