Re: Donations to the PostgreSQL project using bitcoins

On 04/11/2014 05:10 PM, damien clochard wrote:
> Le 11/04/2014 15:19, Michael Paquier a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While looking at the donation page of Postgres, I noticed that there
>> is nothing to be able to give donations in bitcoins. I imagine that it
>> could be nice to add a bitcoin wallet address that people could use to
>> send donations to the PostgreSQL project, and have of course the
>> wallet being managed by the same entity/people as the other money
>> donations. Bitcoin public addresses have the disadvantage to show how
>> many bitcoins a given address has received, but receiving even a
>> little is better than nothing. The wallet address published on
>> postgresql.org could also be changed periodically if showing the total
>> amount received since the existence of the address is a problem.
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> I think this question should be asked to the various non-profit
> organizations among the community (SPI, PGUS, PG Europe, etc.) and each
> one may have a different answer depending on how they want to handle
> donations and money in general.
>
> Speaking for the PGFR association, donations are not a primary source of
> income for us and we don't have plans to develop it (we prefer focusing
> on getting more members). Furthermore we already have 3 different ways
> to accept payments (including paypal) and it's a lot of work to keep up
> with everything, so we're currently trying to simplify it and handling
> bitcoins does not seem simple at all :)
>
>

My own thoughts are that the organizations should accept legal tender,
and not anything else, such as bitcoins, beads, shells, or cowhides. But
then it's not my decision to make.

cheers

andrew