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OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

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Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

#21

Their continued unwillingness to create a US 501(c)(3) entity to receive donations from US donors means that they will continue to lose out on a significant number of potential donations.

I get the impression that OpenBSD has a prejudice against becoming officially involved with the United States, formed in the days when t-shirts were export-restricted munitions.

Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

#22

Their continued unwillingness to create a US 501(c)(3) entity to receive donations from US donors means that they will continue to lose out on a significant number of potential donations.

I've never heard about that. What's the story? How do you know about it?

Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

#23
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html reads: Donations may be made by cheque in CAD/EUR/USD funds to: The OpenBSD Foundation 8101 160 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5R 2G9

Why should I mail money to an address written on an http site?

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Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

#24
post #15

I put a recurring $50 donation when the freeBSD controversy came and went. I hope its useful, not sure what they use the money for.

It is useful, it helps fund the infrastructure, it helps fund hackathons, it helps hosting hackers during the events, it helps bringing developers who would not make it because they wouldn't afford the transportation, it helps getting hardware needed to write new drivers, etc, etc, etc...

As far as I'm concerned, a single week of hackathon achieves far more than months of individual work on the side, and the hackathons take place because the foundation can bring many developers together in the same place at the same time thanks to the donations it receives :-)

Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

#25
post #4

Note that these pages are not served via https, and neither is the donations page[1] which contains links to Paypal. This has been pointed out from time to time on the openbsd "misc" email list but I've never seen a good explanation for why these pages are not secure. [1] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

I am not related to the OpenBSD team, but just dropped a mail for them and in a few hours I can reach it via HTTPS:

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

awesome people :)

Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

#26
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html reads: Donations may be made by cheque in CAD/EUR/USD funds to: The OpenBSD Foundation 8101 160 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5R 2G9

Why should I mail money to an address written on an http site?

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
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