On Sunday 09 July 2006 17:39, Meike Reichle wrote: > I just noticed that most of the European donation pages, e.g. > http://www.debian.org/donations.fr.html or > http://www.debian.org/donations.de.html point to SPI for money > donations. However, SPI points them on to the FFIS. So I was thinking > if it would maybe be helpful to point at FFIS directly. It would save > donors a bit of reading, plus, the "Donations in Europe" section is > rather far at the bottom of SPI's page, and might be overlooked. > > Similar thing goes for http://www.debian.org/donations.it.html which > points to SPI but is then redirected to the Associazione Software > Libero
I propose to instead add this information on the English page, maybe using the following patch: --- donations.wml 20 Nov 2005 22:11:46 -0000 1.57 +++ donations.wml 9 Jul 2006 16:45:06 -0000 @@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ Make sure to specify that the money is intended for Debian. Since SPI is a non-profit organization we can issue receipts for tax purposes. +<p>For some parts of the world it may be easier to make the donation to +one of the partner organizations of Software in the Public Interest +(check the <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations";>SPI donation page</a> +for current information): + +<ul> + <li>Europe: <a href="http://www.ffis.de/Verein/spi-en.html";>\ + Verein zur Förderung Freier Informationen und Software e.V.</a> + (ffis) in Germany + <li>Italy: <a href="http://www.softwarelibero.it/news/20030719-01.shtml";>\ + Associazione Software Libero</a> +</ul> + <h2 id="equipment_donations">Donations of equipment and services</h2> <P>Given the small budget Debian runs on it is not possible, at this time,
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