Siduction Forum
Siduction Forum => Ideas & Improvements => Topic started by: clubex on 2012/02/08, 11:58:22
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I tried this morning to make a donation via PayPal but I had to gave up. It's bad enough that the donation site is only in German but even with google translate I couldn't find how to make a donation. Also Iceweasel reports that the site can't be authenticated which will make people think twice about donating to what appears to be an untrustworthy site.
I think there is an urgent need for improvement. Aptosid has a much easier method of making a donation so it can be done.
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What is so easy about paypal with aptosid? donating to a private paypal account of one of the devs? Not saying, something is wrong there, but ffis hadles big amounts of money for debian and i know the guys there personaly, they have been involved in debian for ages. For example Joey Schulze: http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/Debian/
As for an english donations-page: http://siduction.org/index.php?module=inhalt&func=view&preview=1&pid=3&lang=en
The donation-sprint news also links to that page.
greetz
devil
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I too have tried to figure out how to make a pay pal donation, with no success. Please supply an easy step by step guide or provide a page similar to aptosid.
ian_s
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I found that you must forget the usual Paypal dialogue that you see when buying something on line from say Amazon.
As far as I can remember I logged into my Paypal account and used the donation@ffis.de address as the payee. It wasn't difficult except for finding where to put the subject "siduction" which was resolved on the last page of the Paypal procedure where there is a subject box.
What did throw me somewhat was finding that the money had gone into a personal rather than a business account. But I took that on trust after reading devil's post.
Definitely not easy if you are not used to it.
Having worked for a local charity for 5 years I know from experience that people have 'busy lives' (actually mostly they're just lazy) and if there isn't a quick and straight forward method of making a donation they don't donate.