Re: Donations to the PostgreSQL project using bitcoins

On 04/11/2014 04:28 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> 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.

+1

>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>

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