Re: Issue #14 - No way for donators to be credited

From: Philippe Cloutier <chealer(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issue #14 - No way for donators to be credited
Date: 2018-07-02 16:23:01
Message-ID: 1ec4981f-3db7-56e6-6440-f221f584f2c1@gmail.com
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On 2018-07-02 11:02, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Philippe Cloutier <chealer(at)gmail(dot)com> [2018-07-02 10:54]:
>> http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/ explains that "the identities of
>> donors are kept confidential to SPI, and only disclosed to members
>> of SPI". This is great for donors who want confidentiality, but I
>> imagine this wastes an incentive to donate.
> Yeah, this is actually something we discussed on the board list
> recently. Right now, we don't know if donors want to be public or
> not.
>
> I think what we need is a donation platform where you can tick a box
> before going on to do the payment. The donation system developed by
> MetaBrainz is one we could adopt: https://metabrainz.org/donate
> DonorBox has also been mentioned as a possibility.

MetaBrainz's seems unable to associate multiple donations from a single entity, but it looks good. It lists organizations and individuals in the same list.

>
> This won't happen soon but is something that should be done at some
> point.
>

Yeah, it requires important effort, but it should boost fundraising much.

Thank you for the information

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Philippe Cloutier
http://www.philippecloutier.com

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