<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:04, Swaroop Rao <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raul.swaroop@gmail.com">raul.swaroop@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
BTW, I forgot to update; Patricia (from the fundraising team I suppose) just told me that they're working on Debit card and other means of payment for INR this year.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>One more thing, it seems, even the fundraising team did not plan INR for 2011 and INR happened accidentally when their payments partner seem to support it. So we cannot expect everything smooth on the first time which was not even planned. (Debit cards, Netbanking, not using VBV/MSC etc). I am hopeful that fundraiser team is working on it actively and might help out solve those, may be from next year we will have a completely supported fundraiser. </div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:44, Subhashish Panigrahi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:psubhashish@gmail.com" target="_blank">psubhashish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks Sue, a quick question, forgive me if this thing has already been taken to your consideration.<br>many Indians having no credit cards want to donate to WMF, is that possible for the technical team to add Netbanking and Debit card payment gateway for Indian banks. Secondly if this is not possible for this year is that possible to inform the non credit card holders that they can possible pay the Wikimedia India Chapter on behalf of WMF and the chapter can transfer the funds later to the foundation.<div>
<br></div><div>regards</div><div>Subha<br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Subha,</div><div><br></div><div>Its simple. Chapter CANNOT accept any payment(or claim that it can accept) *on behalf* without a formal agreement. Chapter cannot enter into formal agreement due to FCRA laws. There is no point in talking about this in 11th hour, there was a chance in May 2011, chapter worked towards it, but was not able to beat the legal hurdles, we just need to wait one more year.</div>
<div> </div></div>-- <br>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br>