<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/3/2, Delphine Ménard <<a href="mailto:notafishz@gmail.com">notafishz@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 3/1/07, Any File <<a href="mailto:anysomefile@gmail.com">anysomefile@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> > On the other hand, bank transfer is not always the means of payment of<br>> > choice. My point being, the Italians may want bank transfer, as the
<br>> > Germans would, but the French or the Americans would simply never use<br>> > it.<br>><br>> This rise my curiosity. Why this? Because every French has a credit card?<br><br>Yes, and it costs little and it's really handy because debit and
<br>credit card are in the same plastic thing. And our online banking<br>sucks big time, so making an online bank transfer is hell in a box.<br><br>Cultural differences and history are a big part of this "money<br>changing hands" business. There are those who don't like credit cards,
<br>those who don't have them, those who would "never do anything<br>involving money over the internet", those who have never seen or heard<br>of a check and those who can't imagine that checks are not accepted,
<br>those who love cash and those who hate it, those who are paypal<br>freaks, those who don't trust paypal. In short, there are as many ways<br>of "paying" as there are countries and people. And one organisation
<br>cannot accommodate them all.<br><br>We have to draw the line somewhere :-)<br><br>Delphine<br><br>--<br>~notafish<br>NB. This address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to<br>this address will probably get lost.
<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Hi, all,<br>
<br>
Generally in Taiwan, banks don't accept people to open an account for
just one event, and furthermore, only legal entities who have
registered to the government can open bank accounts. When Taipei was
chosen to host Wikimania 2007, Taiwanese Wikimedians didn't have an
organization to open an account. Neither the Foundation had the
qualification. It took much time for the organizing team to negotiate
with the banks, but finally in vain.<br>
<br>
After several weeks negotiating between the team, Brad and a friendly
organization, in which KJ is on the board of trustees, now we have a
bank account in Taiwan. This account is from a co-sponsor "Association
of Digital Culture of Taiwan", and it is an independent account from
their own account. WMF and ADCT both parties acknowledge this account
is just for this event. ADCT doesn't charge us for borrowing this
account from them.<br>
<br>
With this account, we can continue our preparation works. It will be
the account for receiving registration fees and etc. Dann ( Ms. Hsin-cheng Hsu), the treasurer of the team will
check the account when she gets notification from registration manager
of this event. Then we can as soon as possible confirm the attendee's
registration, including accommodation, if he/she wants to stay in
CTOYAC.<br>
<br>
We have set up a SOP in both Paypal and remittance ways. We hope the
process of registration goes very smoothly. Thanks for all your
concern and understanding. And also, thank you ADCT.<br><br>
THD<br>