Donations (again)

[Benoit Grégoire]

Since in the past we had to turn down (or not follow through) with a few 
offers to donate various amount of money, and we at least agreed that 
collecting donations was a good idea (For details see this thread 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.devel/10092), I'd like 
to revisit this issue one last time. 

Sourceforge now offers a service to accept donations. (More info here 
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=20244&group_id=1#fees)

Yes, it still uses paypal, and not everyone likes that.  However, since the 
system is operated by sourceforge, we are more likely to find support in the 
unlikely event that a problem would happen.  It's also a lot less work to 
maintain that doing our own thing, as it's already documented for the end 
user.

Since it seems quite obvious that after all this time nothing else is likely 
to be setup, I suggest we go with that for the time being.  To set it up, the 
following would be required:

-Each developper listed as admin on SF must opt-in on this page 
https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/donations.php?group_id=192.  These are 
currently:
Benoit Grégoire	benoitg	[Email] [Profile]
Rob Walker	biffhero	[Email] [Profile]
David Hampton	hampton	[Email] [Profile]
Jeremy Collins	jcollins	[Email] [Profile]
Dave Peticolas	jdavisp3	[Email] [Profile]
Linas Vepstas	linas	[Email] [Profile]
Derek Atkins	mit_warlord	[Email] [Profile]
Chris Lyttle	wilddev	[Email] [Profile]

-Someone must be choosen to setup a paypal account to collect the money

-A thank you message must be written to be displayed to the contributors.

-Link it from the homepage.

That's it.  It's not perfect, but at least we'd have something.  Do we go for 
it?
-- 
Benoit Grégoire, http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/