I suppose you can avoid the transaction charges by working in bitcoins? I think the FSF accepts bitcoin donations. At some point, they have to be converted to cash; this is mysterious to me.
Cheers, Dave On 06/29/2012 01:30 AM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote:
I think in general paypal is not a terribly loved solution. I don't have a good answer to this although if you absolutely can't use paypal we can forward donations (libre.thinkpenguin.com and use the about -> contact page) as long as you have a valid credit card that we can charge. Keep in mind this would reduce the funds received a little as it gets 'taxed' by corporations twice. Once we charge your card and once when it is forwarded to the Trisquel project. If it is your only option though I'd still encourage you to contact us. When I find the time to talk to Rubén maybe we can fix this some better way. Maybe someone can investigate http://pledgie.com/site/about and find out if it works well internationally, how Trisquel would get those funds, and what the costs are. It may be a good solution to the paypal concern. It takes time to implement these little features though. If you can look into it though and summarise it on the http://pledgie.com/site/about I think we could probably implement this fairly easy. I've been extremely busy the last few days. If it wasn't for the fact it is costly to add people to the payroll I'd have more time to do little things like this. I think we are getting to that point though I'll get another person to help with US shipping operations. It's also partly a time factor. I have to investigate the options. Just managing things is a full time job and something I don't mind doing- except it requires money as other people generally don't want to work for free. And those which do are inconsistent/unreliable (understandably so of course).
