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[Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>]

- I indeed donated via SPI in 2013 (tm website doesn't reflect ;)). Back then I used a credit card. It now looks like Paypal is possible (perhaps it was also back then).

- It's a US entity, donations are in dollars. I would be interested to know how much goes lost in transaction fees due to (two-times?) currency exchanges (plus payment processing fees).

- It allows for one-time payments (this might or might not be good, Liberapay is recurring-only).

- It is project-bound, which is different from e.g. liberapay being person-bound (that said, it may well be that a donation to SPI ends being a donation to Joris).

Altogether SPI seems like a good option, but it would be advisable to find out about transaction and admin overhead vs. e.g. Liberapay.

Best,

Álvaro.

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 11:35, Frank <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

What is the problem to donate on SPI, as indicated on the official website?
https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/contribute/donations.en.html

I succeeded to set up a monthly donation.

Best,
Frank

于 November 20, 2020 10:09:46 AM UTC, Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden> 写到:
>I have bought the book.
>
>Nothing will prevent the pdf from being widely circulated, sooner or
>later.
>
>We may achieve the objective of supporting better the core team by
>making
>it easy to donate.  I second the suggestion that Joris (and potentially
>others) should create a liberapay/patreon/xxx account to facilitate
>this. I
>would immediately donate 100€.
>
>In fact, a larger base of readers, even if pirate, may increase the
>userbase enough that indirectly more support flows into the project,
>with
>monetary and nonmonetary contributions.
>
>Finally, looking at the success of Overleaf[0]: there may be a business
>opportunity  in developing the infrastructure for collaborative editing
>of
>TeXmacs documents [1]. This project could directly and indirectly
>finance
>some of the core development as well.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Álvaro.
>[0] https://www.overleaf.com/, AGPL 3 code:
>https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf
>[1] maybe using
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type?
>
>
>On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 23:47, <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joris,
>>
>> Thanks for the message ! Basile helped me to solve this issue.
>Solution is
>> underway...
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Alexandre
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 19 nov. 2020 22:33, TeXmacs <address@hidden> a écrit
>:
>>
>> Hi Alexandre,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:47:24PM +0100, Alexandre Danescu wrote:
>> >    I agree completely with the viewpoint of Basile. In my case,
>I've
>> decided
>> >    to buy it but unfortunately, without a PayPal account, it seems
>> impossible...
>>
>> Paypal should provide you with the option to pay with a credit card
>> without
>> opening an account.  But they sometimes don't provide this option (in
>> certain
>> countries or when they are suspicious of I do not know what).  In
>that
>> case,
>> please write to the contact email address provided at scypress.com.
>> Of course, it is impossible for me to know how frequently this
>happens,
>> unless people complain.
>>
>> Best wishes, --Joris
>>
>>
>>

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