Dear Debian developer, I'm an Italian Debian user and I like your product, your philosophy and the spirit of GNU, FSF and so on.
Then, I'd like to contribute with a donation of 50 USD (small, but important for me, a poor worker :) And the question is if you can choose some link from where I can donate only money, without the need to buy CDs. I think those link may be posted in "http://www.spi-inc.org/donations"; or "http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/"; I asked also to the SPI treasurer (after you find the message), but he said you can/have to find and keep updated those links. I guess there are vendors that let me donate only money (I found them in "http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/";), but me, and I think more and more peoples, would like that donating money would be a little easy. Thanks for the patience, and thanks thanks thanks for your fantastic work. Stefano Spinucci Italy ------------------------------------------- MESSAGE SENT SOME DAYS AGO TO THE TREASURER ------------------------------------------- On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:33:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to donate bot I guess why you don't use a more > friendly way to make donations (for donators) like PayPal > or a Credit Card processor (choose you what you want). This has been discussed in the past, and there are drawbacks to both approaches, particularly PayPal. SPI probably may be contracting with a credit card processor in the future, however this point is still under discussion. > Excuse me for the question, but If I donate 20 USD > to Debian, I dislike to pay 10 USD to my bank for the > money transfer (I live in Italy). I don't blame you. In the meantime you might see if ffis e.V. is a more attractive option; see <http://www.ffis.de/Verein/spi-en.html>. > Alternatively, why you don't place in the page > "http://www.spi-inc.org/donations"; a link to a CD vendor > who accept donation to Debian (I mean a SECURE CD vendor > that send you ALL the money I donate). The Debian Project is a member project of SPI; it is Debian's responsibility to provide such links. It's also far more likely that people directly involved with the Debian Project will be able to keep such links up-to-date (while there is currently much overlap between Debian developers and SPI contributing members, this overlap is not guaranteed to be permanent). > PS > ALL THE LINK TO EMAIL YOU IN THE ITALIAN PAGE ARE WRONG!!!!! I am CCing this message to the SPI webmaster for this reason. > PPS > Many thanks for the good work. > Open source, for me, is the future of the free computing, > and it's a good thing for everyone in the world. Thank you very much for your support. I hope that we can make more satisfactory arrangements for you and other Italian supporters of Debian and SPI in the future. -- G. Branden Robinson, Treasurer Software in the Public Interest, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spi-inc.org/
