Re: Customization of Gnome Fund Contribution to Country levels



Dear Shailesh,

GNOME accepts donations starting from as low as you can afford. Please review http://www.gnome.org/friends/step2.php for one time donation: you can see that the default amount is U$25 (and not $500) and can be edited to a lower amount.

I hope that clarifies the issues for you.

Kind regards,

Fred

On 04/05/2011 11:12 AM, Zenwalker wrote:
Dear Board Members,

I here by wish to make an appeal for customizing the rates (contribution
funds) to Gnome programs such as Gnome Store, Friends of Gnome,
Contribute to Gnome, etc. to be customized to the country rates such a
way more people can affort to contribute.

The current problem is, most contributors willing to contribute to the
Free software (Gnome, Linuxfoundation, FSF, etc.) are not able to
contribute in any way viz Buying goodies, fund transfers, etc. coz the
conversion rates are too high.

For example, to become a friends of Gnome program and sponsor 500USD to
get a one time membership, etc. features, it will cost around 21,000 INR
(Indian Currency) for an individual.

This is leading to loosing alot of contributors in and around asia
specific. I can assure you this problem is faced by many in my country
(india) when ever i interact with many people interested in gnome and
wishes to contribute funds, upon seeing the conversion rates, they back
off.

Hence i here by make a request to the board of members to take further
decisions as requested above, so that every body can contribute easily
and comfortably.

P.S: I had the same above discussion with Brian Cameron when he visited
Gnome.Asia 2011 summit in bangalore recently. He directed me to write a
mail to the Board Members.

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