If you've signed the representation agreement Jimbo, Foundation has an official agent in France : Wikimédia France. As soon as you've signed and returned the bylaws, the association will be registered. It will be then extremely simple for Wikimédia France to open a Euro bank account in the name of Foundation. villy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] e-gold proposal
|I agree with Mav's recommendations and concerns. | | I think the priority is going to be getting us set up with a merchant | account to be able to accept Visa and Mastercard and JCB. We also | need to try to find out how to get a European bank account so that method | of payment can be done. | | | Daniel Mayer wrote: | | > --- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote: | > > A proposal follows that is commercial in nature. I am posting it to this | > > list per the instructions of one of the Wikimedia Foundation Board members. | > > ***************** | > > I would like to encourage the Wikimedia Foundation to: | > > | > > * Accept e-gold www.e-gold.com donations, | > > * Post a prominent link to the e-gold site, using syntax that would | > > enable the Foundation to capture referral incentives. | > > | > > | > > .... | > > | > > Not knowing e-gold and aware of the imperfection of the paypal system, I read | > > with interest all comments offered on the matter before making my opinion. | > > | > > Since he is in charge of the matter, I think Mav opinion on the topic will be | > > of primary impact. | > | > I've looked into it a bit, but am still very confused on how this would work | > and whether the pool of people using e-gold is large enough to warrant our | > attention yet. I'm also very hesitant to add yet another third party handling | > our donations (presenting too many choices to people turns them away and having | > yet-another-account makes things more difficult for me to keep track of things | > - PayPal is very good at making this easy). | > | > What we need is a way by which the great majority of likely donors can donate | > easily. IMO, the PayPal/Moneybookers/mail donation set-up allows for that | > already. But I'm willing to listen and learn. | > | > -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) | > | > | > | > __________________________________ | > Do you Yahoo!? | > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. | > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 | > _______________________________________________ | > foundation-l mailing list | > foundation-l@wikimedia.org | > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l | > | | -- | "La nèfle est un fruit." - first words of 50,000th article on fr.wikipedia.org | _______________________________________________ | foundation-l mailing list | foundation-l@wikimedia.org | http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |