Hunter Peress wrote: I have been following a practice of maintaining all non-USD donations separately, continuing to hold them in the original currency, with the idea that _perhaps_ we will try to spend those dollars in such a way as to primarily benefit donors in that part of the world. SunTrust Bank Account Balance: $1,862.23 PayPal Balances: USD 94.98 CAD 257.80 EUR 648.54 GBP 168.84 (Converted to USD this would be: $1,290.85) The only money that has been spent so far: $50 - wikipedia.de domain name renewal (but, we don't have this yet) $9,126.42 - the big new db server And there have been some small bank fees, as well. If there is a move for me to do so, I can post these numbers on a more regular basis, rather than whenever someone happens to ask me. It is possible with PayPal to write programs to interact with their system to get balances, but I have not done so yet because I don't think we are going to stick with Paypal as our only money service providers, and it seems that when we have several, automation would be a lot of work for little benefit. --Jimbo

Lars Aronsson wrote: Does this mean that since you can copy GPL money as much as you want, there would be no such thing as counterfeiting? :-) Ec