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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Lennart,<br>
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Looks like the paypal works good for donation. Look at the
donation button which I have just created on my CV web site
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/site/maksimstruchalin/">https://sites.google.com/site/maksimstruchalin/</a>). The button in
the bottom. <br>
<br>
Fee for such transactions is 3.4% + some cents
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.paypal.com/nz/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside">https://www.paypal.com/nz/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside</a>).<br>
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I donated $1 to myself and it worked as promised. <br>
<br>
You will might want to create a buisness account (I used "premier"
in this case).<br>
<br>
Maksim<br>
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On 15/10/2015 22:34, Maksim Struchalin wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Lennart,<br>
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I studied this issue a couple of years ago and my undertanding
was at that time that there are many companies which provide
such service because there are millions small internet shops in
web. They make profit from taking about 5% from each transcation
(not much). This might be usfull: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/get-started/donate-button">https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/get-started/donate-button</a>
. Also, you might adviertise this work on one of many websites
where freelancers search their jobs and some of them might do it
for say $50-$100-$200 (I can do it for $1000 :-) ).<br>
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p.s. As alterntive, you can make it very simple: Advertises my
bank account number on genabel.org as account number for all
donations and I will take care of the rest :-).<br>
<br>
good luck,<br>
Maksim<br>
<br>
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On 15/10/2015 21:10, L.C. Karssen wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi Maksim, Yurii,
Thanks for your input in the discussion.
On 15-10-15 09:44, Yurii Aulchenko wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I agree with Maksim - this is very handy how wikipedia does that. In case people are willing to donate, it should be very simple to do - otherwise people will not do this (my personal experience :))
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<pre wrap="">Sounds like a good option to me too, I hadn't thought of that.
My question with this option is how payments are processed. Is there a
company that provides this kind of button+service? And what do they charge?
For Google and Gratipay I already found those details.
The nice thing about Gratipay and BountySource.com is that you can more
directly show/inform the audience what the money will be used for. With
a donate button and Google Ads that is not so easy.
Lennart.
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<pre wrap="">On 15 Oct 2015, at 00:57, Maksim Struchalin <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.v.struchalin@mail.ru"><m.v.struchalin@mail.ru></a> wrote:
Hi Lennart & Yurii,
The first thing I would do is to introduce a "donation button" in <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.genabel.org">www.genabel.org</a> like on wikipedia. So user can type his/her credit card info and donate some money. I donated some money to wikipedia recently and could do it very quickly through their donation button.
Maksim
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<pre wrap="">On 15 окт. 2015 г., at 1:20, "L.C. Karssen" <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:l.c.karssen@polyomica.com"><l.c.karssen@polyomica.com></a> wrote:
Dear list,
As you may have noticed over the past year(s) the contributions to the
GenABEL project by Yurii and myself have steadily declined. The main
reason for this is simple: lack of funding. We have started our own
consulting business and although we have tried to include GenABEL into
grant applications wherever we could, we haven't been able to secure any
funds for this.
On the other side of the balance we do have some fixed costs related to
the hosting of the genabel.org website (and some flexible costs related
to its maintenance).
We therefore propose the following:
1) Given that <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.genabel.org">www.genabel.org</a> does receive a reasonable number of
visitors per month we would like to add Google Ads to the pages. This
may not generate a lot of revenue but anything many small bits can help
(see e.g. [1]).
Of course this will lead to a change in layout of the site, but we will
try to make this a minimally disruptive as possible so as not to harm
the user experience.
Of course we understand that this can/should lead to a discussion about
who owns/takes care of the incoming funds. We could set up a foundation
under Dutch law to take care of that. However, that would require around
€3500 per year in accounting/reporting costs, etc. which is much more
than we can invest (and more than we expect to earn from the ads).
Therefore we would like to propose the following: Being the main sponsor
of the Project PolyOmica will manage the funds (any payment will go to
our bank account), and as part of our open policy we will provide a
regular (quarterly? annual?) report to the community of the income
generated and how it was spent (see e.g [2]). Any money that remains
after covering these basic costs can be used to fund further development
of the GenABEL Suite packages (maybe via one of the options listed below).
We also thought of some alternative ways of generating some income:
2) Add a channel on bountysource.com [3]
3) Make the GenABEL Project a Team on Gratipay (formerly GitTip) [1,2,4,5]
4) Join <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://flattr.com">http://flattr.com</a>
Does anyone have experience with any of these micropayment/crowdfunding
providers?
Please let us know what you think of these ideas. We would really love
to make the Project more vibrant and sustainable than it currently is!
Lennart & Yurii.
[1]
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2014/02/i-bought-a-weekly-round-for-my-friends.html">http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2014/02/i-bought-a-weekly-round-for-my-friends.html</a>
[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://inside.gratipay.com/appendices/finances">http://inside.gratipay.com/appendices/finances</a>
[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://salt.bountysource.com">https://salt.bountysource.com</a>
[4] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gratipay.com/">https://gratipay.com/</a>
[5] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://medium.com/gratipay-blog/gratipay-2-0-2453d3c53077">https://medium.com/gratipay-blog/gratipay-2-0-2453d3c53077</a>
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