I tried to donate by PayPal too, but failed because Estonia as very-very many (maybe most) other countries is missing in the PayPal list where one must choose his country before donating. :(
Sulev
3.03.2005 16:50:35, Pedro Fayolle pfayolle@gmail.com kirot':
I would particularly like to see some better directions for people no in the "main world". Even though I do my earnings in a rather devaluated currency I would have liked to make a donation this time. I admit I didn't put enough effort to figure it out on my own, but it is also a bit trickier for me here, esp. since I don't own a credit card.
Congratulations to all on the huge success!
Pedro
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:31:41 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
That needed _improving_?
Off the top of my head; faster updates at least for PayPal data using some kind of script (in development), launching more national chapters that have tax exempt status (this seems to have greatly increased donations from Germany), overall a more automated process (running this drive took me 6 to 8 hours per day - which is not sustainable in our volunteer framework), development of translatable interwiki templates that could be used to update [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] on all wikis at once (doing this wiki by wiki is *insane*), some improvements in the PayPal donation forms (such as a drop down currency selection option instead of separate pages for each money type), and a better way to keep the foundation wiki updated (having separate meta and foundation wiki copies of the same pages is hard to deal with).
I'm sure there are other areas of improvement as well but so far I mostly see a need for efficiency improvements and faster/better feedback to donors and the community.
Seriously, I can think of only one real improvement needed, which is the ability to give directly using credit cards, which I think would have further increased the rate and scope of donations -- but I believe you already have that task in hand.
Such a system is in development and almost certainly will be up for the next fund drive.
Congratulations on a job well done.
Thank you. :) Everybody who helped in this fund drive should proud.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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