Hi Brian Thanks for working on this. I'm fine with your proposed position statement.
Gaudenz Brian Gupta <brian.gu...@brandorr.com> writes: > Being as we are the closest thing that Debian has to a fundraising > team, I would like to find out what the team's opinion on Paypal is. > (And if possible have it be our official stance.) IE: In a separate > effort I am trying to get a paypal account/form prominently features > directly on www.d.o/donations. It may require a discussion on -project > and I would like to be able to share the opinion of our team. Current > auditors team believes it's an improvement, as does DPL. > > I think the support of this team would be very helpful in making a > the case that the people involved in debian fundraising are generally > in support of adding Paypal as an option, if proper risk-mitigation > strategies are used. (IE: Don't store large sums of money in Paypal.) > > I believe the opinion would be best characterized as: > > "The DebConf fundraising team understand that some people don't like > Paypal. Some of the team members also don't like Paypal, but recognize > it's value as a widely used payments platform that can aid Debian's > fundraising efforts. For a non-trivial percentage of people who > already have Paypal accounts, providing them a Paypal option will make > it much easier for them to donate money to Debian and would likely > increase donations. This option would not replace all the other > options on Debian's donations page. > > In addition, Paypal's current fees of 2.9% + $0.30 are competitive to > other online donation options we have available. These go even lower > once we have access to an SPI Paypal account (2.2% + $0.30). > (Non-profit discount). > > Paypal, like all the payment services we use, does not require us to > use proprietary libraries or protocols to interface with them." > > Does anyone have any objections or tweaks that you feel would make > this more accurate? > > Feel free to email me directly or ping me in IRC if you have private feedback. > > Thanks, > Brian > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
