Markus Neteler wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
<tmitch...@osgeo.org> wrote:
On 12-Mar-09, at 11:27 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
I would like to bring up the idea of accepting microdonations
as general donations to OSGeo:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations
Given the success of OSM, Wikipedia and others in that area of
fund-rising I don't see a reason why OSGeo does not accept
small donations from community members and likeminded people
to keep OSGeo running.
I was looking more at this idea this week and I just realised that we do
already accept these donations. We do have the PayPal donation button on the
website front page (top right corner). Was there more you think we need to
be doing? Anyone can donate through that already, are you suggesting a
change to that?
Ok, fine - do you have any insights in how well that works?
Markus,
It is very rare for us to get a donation through this mechanism. I would
also note that these are undirected donations. You cannot donate through
this mechanism and have it go to a particular project or activity. It is
just booked as a generic donation by Tyler, and I'm not aware of any
acknowledgement process (or tax receipts).
The hard part of microdonations isn't so much receiving them via something
like paypal, it is managing small pools of money "on the books" for many
sub-projects, and trying to keep track of who donated to what and when.
Best regards,
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