Phone number for donations?

I'd like to start making small, regular donations to SPI, explicitly for
Debian. I use my bank's bill-pay function for this sort of thing.
Unfortunately, my bill-pay service requires a US phone number for the
recipient, and I'm not finding such a thing in the SPI web site.

The WHOIS database lists a non-US number, which I can't use for the purpose.

Is there a solution for folks who require a phone number to donate? For
various reasons, only one of which is laziness, writing out checks by hand
and mailing them isn't a good option for me, and I don't tend to allow things
to pull through a credit/debit card directly.

Thanks in advance for clues!

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Treasurer's Report as of 2013-04-30

This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations
when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and
recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when
incurred).

Income Statement
for the Period April 01, 2013 - April 30, 2013

 Income
   Ordinary Income
        ankur.org.in                     1,000.00
        Arch Linux                         470.80
        DebConf 13                      12,907.84
        Debian                          11,861.79
        Drizzle                          4,500.00
        FFmpeg                             110.00
        freedesktop.org                    100.00
        FreedomBox Foundation            4,000.00
        Haskell                          5,368.60
        Jenkins                             90.00
        LibreOffice                     34,750.40
        Open Bioinformatics Foundation  37,447.31
        OpenWrt                             52.00
        PostgreSQL                       2,681.97
        Privoxy                            100.00
        SPI General                        320.00
        SPI 5%                             383.87
        TideSDK                            166.00
        Tux4Kids                         2,488.65

SPI resolution 2013-05-06.jmd.1: MinGW as associated project

This doesn't look controversial to me; I'd like to present it at the
meeting this Thursday if there isn't any disagreement.

WHEREAS

1. MinGW is a substantial and significant Free Software project.

2. The MinGW developers would like SPI's support and assistance,
including taking donations and holding trademarks.

THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT

3. MinGW is formally invited to become an SPI Associated Project,
according to the SPI Framework for Associated Projects, SPI Resolution
1998-11-16.iwj.1-amended-2004-08-10.iwj.1, a copy of which can be found
at http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004/2004-08-10.iwj.1/

4. Earnie Boyd is recognised by SPI as the liaison to SPI for MinGW and
is responsible in the first instance for communicating the wishes of
MinGW to SPI. In the event of the need for a replacement Keith Marshall
will name the new liaison.

5. This invitation will lapse, if not accepted, 60 days after it is
approved by the SPI Board.

J.

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Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software

SPI members:

The Software Freedom Conservancy is proposing to fund the efforts of a
full-time software developer to create NPO accounting software which
will be completely open source and free.  SPI could really use such
software.

https://sfconservancy.org/campaign/

As such, I propose that we fund this effort using $10,000 out of our
general SPI funds.  I think this is a good idea because:

1) It benefits our member projects by eventually providing more timely
and more transparent accounting of member project funds.

2) It promotes Open Source software by providing a completely free
package to be used at non-profits nationwide*, and eventually worldwide.

3) It promotes Open Source software by making it easier for OSS
nonprofits to have good accounting, and thus establish and maintain NPOs.

4) We have general fund money which is not being used**, and this is the
first project in a long time which is clearly in the interests of SPI's
mission and our member projects.

(* if you check the web page, the Conservancy has already established
relationships with multiple non-OSS NPOs who are interested in the software)

(** As of 3/31, our general reserves were $55,809)

SSL certificate providers

It looks like OBF needs a new wildcard cert for its primary domain. Are there some recommendations among the
projects under this roof as which providers provide good value or are recommendable for other reasons?

And I understand from the recent discussion that SPI doesn't provide this service - am I correct in that?

	-hilmar
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Bitcoin

Hi!

Have you considered Bitcoin as a way of donating to you? I'm not saying it's necessarily something great but
it certainly is something to consider as (especially international) donations are always a huge hassle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Thank you for the valuable work you do!

Mikko

Treasurer's Report as of 2013-03-31

This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations
when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and
recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when
incurred).

Income Statement
for the Period March 01, 2013 - March 31, 2013

 Income
   Ordinary Income
        0 A.D.                              40.00
        aptosid                             75.00
        Arch Linux                         402.00
        DebConf 13                       2,166.30
        Debian                           1,383.57
        FFmpeg                              40.00
        freedesktop.org                     45.00
        Gallery                             20.00
        Jenkins                            175.00
        LibreOffice                        197.00
        OpenWrt                             12.00
        PostgreSQL                       1,610.00
        SPI General                        270.00
        SPI 5%                             205.23
        The HeliOS Project                  83.00
        TideSDK                             12.00
        Tux4Kids                         5,000.00
        YafaRay                             10.00

        Total Ordinary Income           11,746.10

List of associated projects

Hi all.  The Open Bioinformatics Foundation and Sproutcore projects still
don't have blurbs on the website at http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/

If these projects could send them through I'll put the pages up.

Cheers

Rob

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Treasurer's Report as of 2013-02-28

This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations
when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and
recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when
incurred).

Income Statement
for the Period February 01, 2013 - February 28, 2013

 Income
   Ordinary Income
        0 A.D.                               5.00
        Arch Linux                         215.83
        DebConf 13                          20.43
        Debian                             798.55
        FFmpeg                              60.00
        freedesktop.org                     27.00
        FreedomBox Foundation               22.00
        GNU TeXmacs                         20.00
        Jenkins                          1,155.00
        LibreOffice                        583.00
        OpenWrt                              4.00
        PostgreSQL                           5.00
        SPI General                        718.55
        SPI 5%                             199.62
        The HeliOS Project               1,025.00
        TideSDK                             52.00

        Total Ordinary Income            4,909.98
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Treasurer's Report as of 2013-01-31

This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations
when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and
recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when
incurred).

Income Statement
for the Period January 01, 2013 - January 31, 2013

 Income
   Ordinary Income
        Arch Linux                         685.00
        DebConf 13                      12,500.00
        Debian                           4,173.34
        FFmpeg                              41.00
        FreedomBox Foundation                5.00
        Jenkins                          1,140.00
        LibreOffice                     10,376.00
        OpenWrt                              2.00
        PostgreSQL                         250.00
        SPI General                      2,901.30
        SPI 5%                             340.37
        The HeliOS Project                 125.00
        TideSDK                             30.00

        Total Ordinary Income           32,569.01
                                        ---------

   Interest Income
        Key Bank Money Mkt Savings           0.56
        Chase BusinessClassic Checking       0.48

SPI resolution 2013.03.14.bg.1, OpenEmbedded as associated project

Please add this resolution to our March agenda.

OpenEmbedded is a framework for building embedded Linux distributions,
more information about which may be found at http://openembedded.org

Bdale

SPI resolution 2013.03.14.bg.1

WHEREAS

1. OpenEmbedded is a substantial and significant Free Software project.

2. The OpenEmbedded developers would like SPI's support and assistance,
including taking donations.

THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT

3. OpenEmbedded is formally invited to become an SPI Associated Project,
according to the SPI Framework for Associated Projects, SPI Resolution
1998-11-16.iwj.1-amended-2004-08-10.iwj.1, a copy of which can be found
at http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004/2004-08-10.iwj.1/

4. Philip Balister <philip <at> balister.org> is recognised by SPI as the
authoritative decision maker and SPI liaison for OpenEmbedded.
Successors will be appointed by the OpenEmbedded eV board
<board <at> openembedded.org>.

5. This invitation will lapse, if not accepted, 60 days after it is
approved by the SPI Board.