Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

[Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com> wrote:
> One area we should think about are improvements to the Friends of GNOME
> website[1] (some of things related to this have been mentioned in
> previous post’s and are documented on the wiki)[2].

One thing that recently come to my mind was the possibly for the
foundation to accept Bitcion donations [1] [2].

I know that there have been some issues around Bitcoin including legal
questions but if I understand things correctly the situation have
improved. Actually the reason I write is mail is because I yesterday
read that Wikimedia foundation have started accepted Bitcoin
donations[3], the improved legal status[4] of Bitcion was cited as one
reason for this decision (also FSF have accepted Bitcion donation for
several years [5]).

I understand that us start accepting Bitcoin would require someone
with US legal expertise to investigate the matter from a GNOME
foundation perspective. That said, I think it makes sense for us to
accept Bitcion donations if we can address the legal and the
administrative issues. Are curious about other people's opinions about
this.

1 https://bitcoin.org/en/
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcion
3 http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Virtual-Currency-Guidance
4 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/
5 https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/bitcoins-a-new-way-to-donate-to-the-fsf
-- 
-mvh Oliver Propst