Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-30 Thread jaropis
If there is an ONLINE mechanism, I will donate. j Joshua Wiley wrote: > Dear R Users, > > I know issues like this have come up in the past. I am wondering how > many people would be interested in an online mechanism for donating to > the R Foundation or for becoming supporting members. Right

Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-30 Thread John Fox
half Of Joshua Wiley > Sent: September-26-11 11:31 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership > > Thanks for the insight, Ben. I can appreciate not wanting the hassle of > administration, and I suppose there are already sufficient funds for the > fi

Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-26 Thread Joshua Wiley
Thanks for the insight, Ben. I can appreciate not wanting the hassle of administration, and I suppose there are already sufficient funds for the fixed costs of stuff like the website. I like the idea of an intermediary that would handle all the issues related to donations, non-profit, etc. Then

Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-25 Thread Ben Bolker
Spencer Graves structuremonitoring.com> writes: > > On 9/25/2011 9:57 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote: > > Joshua Wiley-2 wrote: > >> So we have at least three people interested, maybe not call for a > >> totally new system. What about a PDF form that could be filled out > >> digitally, saved, encry

Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-25 Thread Spencer Graves
On 9/25/2011 9:57 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote: Joshua Wiley-2 wrote: So we have at least three people interested, maybe not call for a totally new system. What about a PDF form that could be filled out digitally, saved, encrypted using the R Foundation's public key, and emailed? GPG keys are fr

Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-25 Thread Berend Hasselman
Joshua Wiley-2 wrote: > > So we have at least three people interested, maybe not call for a > totally new system. What about a PDF form that could be filled out > digitally, saved, encrypted using the R Foundation's public key, and > emailed? GPG keys are free, and I can make a fillable PDF. I

Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote: > I printed the form to mail off, but anecdotally I had planned on this > for well over a year and kept putting it off.  If this is something > that useRs and the R Foundation would be interested in, I would be > happy to help work on setting so

Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-24 Thread David Cross
For my part, knowing all of my (mostly bad) habits, I would only donate if I could do it online. And I would be happy to donate! Cheers David Cross d.cr...@tcu.edu www.davidcross.us On Sep 24, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Joshua Wiley wrote: > Dear R Users, > > I know issues like this have come up

[R] Supporting R/Membership

2011-09-24 Thread Joshua Wiley
Dear R Users, I know issues like this have come up in the past. I am wondering how many people would be interested in an online mechanism for donating to the R Foundation or for becoming supporting members. Right now, the link for it is somewhat buried on the R home page, and once you get there,