It might
be a good thing to add the ability
of bank transfer, maybe even through a WMF-account that they transfer it
together to you? (to reduce costs for international and inter-valuta
traffic)
This may be a good idea, but it may have some legal implication. Who
would be the entity that collect the money and at what title would do that.
[...]
If such a thing would be set up, not only the people in that country
could benefit, but also the people in many other countries in Europe
since the transfer fee to another EU country would be minimal compared
to an EU/Taiwan transfer.
In 2005 Wikimania Foundation was given access to a bank account held by
Wikimedia Germany. I don't know whether Wikimania Germany can offer this
for Wikimania 2007 but I'll ask our treasurer. A bank account within the
EU would at least help EU citizen because transfer fee within EU is zero
(of course there is transfer fee between EU and taiwan but it's probably
less if money is transfered collected). Maybe we could set up a
procedure where you weekly send Wikimedia Germany the list of people
with keywords and Wikimedia Germany checks whether money has been
recieved or not.
Greetings,
Jakob
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