Any File wrote:
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