[arch-general] Donation options

[Keith Scheiwiller]

Just want to chime in that while I'm not particularly informed on the
options for donating to projects, liberapay does look quite nice
compared to SPI (though the $100 cap per person is a little odd in my
opinion).

I'm personally not all too fussed about the PayPal fees (though I
understand others' concerns towards it). I'll continue to use SPI
though unless the team indicates options like liberapay are equally as
frictionless on their end.

Best,
Keith

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:28 AM Frédéric Tobias Christ via
arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to donate to Arch Linux. However, the existing options both take
> high fees (SPI: Transaction fees via PayPal, Click&Pledge: 2.75%
> platform + 2,5 % credit card fee ) and I don't want to finance PayPal.
> What about adding Liberapay [1] <https://liberapay.com/> as a non-profit
> donations platform? They don't take any monthly fees
> <https://liberapay.com/about/faq#how-funded> [2], just pass on the
> payment process fees. For instance, Europeans can use SEPA transactions
> (without any fees).
>
> What do you think about it?
>
> PS: I also posted this [3] in the forum, but noticed shortly after that
> another thread about donation remains unnoticed by the people in charge.
>
> [1] https://liberapay.com/
> [2] https://liberapay.com/about/faq#how-funded
> [3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2021543#p2021543
>
> --
> Beste Grüße
> Frédéric Christ
>