Donations

viniosity · 2006-02-08 18:04:09

Got a few q's about donating to keep arch going:

1. Is there a way to donate w/out paypal?

2. Are hardware donations needed? (old hard disks, not premium computers, etc)

3. Are donations tax deductible in the US? (not super important but thought I'd ask)

cactus · 2006-02-08 18:24:24

3. No. Arch is not a non-profit organization, nor a charity. It would be kinda cool if there was an "Archlinux foundation" that was a nonprofit, whose purpose was the betterment of linux in general, and archlinux specifically.. Then donations could be tax deductible..and perhaps more people would donate.

Dusty · 2006-02-08 18:53:46

1) Yes. The MC/Visa link on the donations page (http://www.archlinux.org/donations.php) goes to a paypal acct.

2) Needed, hard to say, accepted, probably. I recall some 586 machines being needed to work on the 586 repo, but I think that was satisfied ages ago. I'd love to see Judd have a 64 bit machine so he has some incentive to do some arch64 work. :-)

Dusty

viniosity · 2006-02-08 21:11:15

I'd rather donate by check but I guess I'll feed the paypal machine if there is no other choice.

I agree with Cactus about the foundation though.. I think this is a great idea. I guess Judd might have problems setting this up from Canada though. Still, I can't help but think that donations would go up if they were deductible. Arch might even get some corporate sponsors..

apeiro · 2006-02-08 22:04:53

You can mail me a check if you prefer.

Email me for my snail mail addy.

dtw · 2006-02-09 14:11:08

I want to fund a compile farm so that UNSUPPORTED can become a binary repo, auto-built by script when a pkg is flagged as safe by a TU...but I can't afford it

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