Re: New face to Friends of GNOME

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

Patrick:

> * Finally, I think that the FoG program is a bit US centric right now.
> There might be a lot of potential that we miss here. We might want to
> translate the page into multiple languages. We might want to check, if
> we can find charitable organizations in other jurisdictions that would
> be willing to take donations on our behalf and then spend it on Gnome
> love (think of Wau Holland Foundation as an example, who does this for
> Wikileaks ;). That way, a FoG donation would be tax-deductible in more
> jurisdictions or we could offer some other kinds of money transfer that
> is more common in a jurisdiction. Also, it should be technically
> possible to detect where our friends are coming from and convert the
> amount into their currency. Maybe just provide a box to choose the
> currency. For some friends, it may not be obvious that Paypal will
> convert to their native currency or they just wont take the hassle to
> convert it themselves beforehand to check if it is a feasible amount for
> them to spend.

Didn't we make arrangements to accept donations in boletos in Brazil?
I remember Jonh Wendell was working on this.

If so, we should explain how to give such donations on the page.  Does
anybody have a pointer to instructions?

Brian

cc:ing Jonh