Hello [ raised on -www, CC'ing debian-project ]
Thanks Vladislav for your email. On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 04:32:00AM +0300, Vladislav Zorov wrote: > I've been using Debian for many years and many different purposes, so, > of course, I wanted to donate. I went to debian.org, expecting to find > a large button on the homepage that allows me to make a one-click > donation. I didn't find it, so I started reading the text and > eventually found the "Donations" link under "About". When I clicked > it, I got to a page that again didn't have a donate button, but > instead described another organization, SPI. I started reading and > found out SPI handles the donations for Debian. OK, so I went to an > entirely different website. Now, they did have a donate button, but > there was nothing one-click about it: you have to find the Debian > project from a large list of other, unrelated projects, then you have > to enter all your credit card details in yet another website, > clickandpledge.com, which I don't recognize. Indeed, see the link with a direct anchor to Debian project below. However, the problem is that SPI / click&pledge applies mainly to US donators (example ffis is best for european donators). > At this point I gave up, went back to Google to search for "debian donation > paypal", but found only one post about some supposedly Debian address that is > registered with PayPal, but also found contradicting information that Debian > doesn't accept PayPal and this could be a fraud. The fact Debian doesn't have a PayPal account (if confirmed ? I have no idea) could be added to http://www.debian.org/donations to avoid Debian users from being abused. > A relatively easy solution could be to move the clickandpledge.com > button (from http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/ ) directly to > debian.org's homepage with a short description to select the Debian > project from the list. This could be https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=34115#DonationName_4 However a stable anchor name may be safer, can SPI board member request that ? > If it's possible to accept PayPal, an even better solution would be to just > use PayPal's donate button, thus most users will only need one click and > their PayPal password, avoiding the point where most users abort their > payments (the credit card details entry form). I understand if there's an > ideological reason to not accept PayPal, but neither Debian nor SPI said > anything about it. That's a good question for debian-project. > Thank you for helping the greatest OS in the world! -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130505202344.gl19...@glenfiddich.mraw.org
