[SOLVED] Donating to Slackware

Lysander666 · 07-25-2018, 01:40 PM

Glad that you were able to quash that bitcoin thing, Patrick. I feel a little bad for posting it now but I'm pleased that it has been officially flagged as false. Great to see a PP link up too.

EDIT: Donation sent.

hitest · 07-25-2018, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by volkerdi

So in lieu of a more permanent solution I'll offer up my PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/volkerdi

Thanks for your support!

Thanks for the link, Pat. Donation sent. Have a great day, Sir.

notKlaatu · 07-25-2018, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by volkerdi

So in lieu of a more permanent solution I'll offer up my PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/volkerdi

Paypal apparently won't let me send money [any more] from outside the USA. It insists on a US billing address to authenticate my debit or credit card, and I don't have a US billing address any more since becoming an ex-pat. This is strange, because two years ago I used Paypal to donate to Slackware (well, the store anyway) and my transactions worked as expected.

Anyway, I'll monitor this thread for a global solution, like Patreon or Kickstarter or Gumroad or Indiegogo (I list these because I've used them recently with success).

EDIT: I'm also happy to get instructions on how to work around Paypal's restrictions from people with more experience living outside the US empire than me.

EDIT2: I put in a fake USA address and sent a donation through. Thanks everyone who compared notes with me. I'm not sure why my New Zealand IP is triggering a different response than what everyone else sees, but maybe it's solved now.

Melke · 07-25-2018, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by volkerdi

Bitcoins can indeed go to that address, just like donations used to be able to go to the store.

IT'S NOT ME. Folks, I'm still reading this long and remarkable thread and will try to comment on it about more than this, but needed to head this one off at the pass. As I commented there, I wasn't really ready to post yet when I did (wanted to set up a Patreon or something first), but really couldn't let the store just keep on collecting donations when I had little faith that I'd ever see any of them. Of course, NOW the store says they'll be sending me the collected funds, but I'll believe that when I see it.

I'd still like to get a Patreon, or a more official PayPal than my personal one. And I need to follow up on some ideas that landed in my email. Plus my air conditioning repair I got yesterday lasted about an hour and my machine has already overheated and locked up once today. Pretty sure the hard drive is about to fail even though SMART doesn't think so.

Anyway, the reason I'm leaning towards Patreon is that it might be a more predictable source of income that would allow me to focus on the project rather than having fund drives all the time. Though I do love public radio - there's nothing wrong with a good fund drive. I already got a couple of PayPal donations from friends who knew my PayPal link already, so I'll be having to figure out how to pay taxes on my PayPal income anyway. So it would probably be fine to use that now, but I'd rather have a better plan. Like I said, I still need to catch up on this thread.

So in lieu of a more permanent solution I'll offer up my PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/volkerdi

Thanks for your support!

Rock on man, donation sent!

hitest · 07-25-2018, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by notKlaatu

Paypal apparently won't let me send money [any more] from outside the USA.

That's odd. I just sent Pat a donation from Northern Canada.

Lysander666 · 07-25-2018, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest

That's odd. I just sent Pat a donation from Northern Canada.

Yes, it was fine from the UK too.

titopoquito · 07-25-2018, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Lysander666

Yes, it was fine from the UK too.

And from Germany, too.

mralk3 · 07-25-2018, 01:59 PM

Donation sent. Do something nice for yourself and your family!

cmiranda · 07-25-2018, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi

So in lieu of a more permanent solution I'll offer up my PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/volkerdi

Thanks for your support!

Done and done. Thanks again for Slackware.

RadicalDreamer · 07-25-2018, 02:22 PM

Here is an article on this: https://www.itwire.com/open-source/8...-paid-him.html

kjhambrick · 07-25-2018, 02:25 PM

Thank you for the Link Pat.

Hang in there !

-- kjh

teoberi · 07-25-2018, 02:37 PM

Donation sent.
I hope you can overcome these personal problems as quickly as possible.
I will be very happy if you can continue developing Slackware.

PayPal link works well from Romania.
If there are any other Romanian Slackware users who can donate, I invite them to do so!

ChuangTzu · 07-25-2018, 02:48 PM

Recurring donations will help alot and is viable long term:

Example, if there are 2,000 Slackware users that donate $25 per year, PV via Slackware Linux, Inc. can generate $50K per year. Of course those numbers are conservative as it could be more then 2,000 users donating and could be more then $25 per year. 4,000 donations at $25= $100K per year etc...

Pat, regarding PayPal and taxes, in the US, they prepare a form (you can print from your account) that lists all sales/donations for the year similar to a W2 but for internet sales 1099-K etc... Just enter the data in your tax program and you're done. We can discuss via PM if you wish.
Ref: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/irs6050w

In lieu of merchandise, perhaps there could be a Member/Subscriber/Donator Newsletter (quarterly, semi-annual, annual etc...), with some words from our BDFL.

Other members could contribute as well. Just shooting some ideas your way.

AlleyTrotter · 07-25-2018, 02:52 PM

Pat
In the past we have had several communications about UEFI, and I suspected you did not have bare metal for UEFI.
God I wish I would have acted sooner
Take some of my meager donation and buy the wife something nice after all the crap she puts up with for Slackware.
John

brianL · 07-25-2018, 03:02 PM

Donated. Thanks for the Paypal link, Pat.
Hope all your problems are sorted out soon.
Brian