Is there another way i can donate?

[DigitalDuality]

I would love to donate to this forums bandwidth cost.

Unfortunately, i stay miles and miles away from paypal. Last time i registered an account with them, they literally raped my bank account. Probably some non-malicious error, but i lost 400 bucks to a charge i never made, to a site i had never been to, and through all my fights with pay pal, i never got that money back.

I'd love to help out, but i simply won't register an account with that company.

[codejunkie]

id like to know this also, is there an admin that give us some info say a mailing address. so i could send a check or a money order.

[ubuntu-geek]

I'll check into another way for you guys to donate. I'd rather not accept checks/money orders but I am sure there is another method out there. I'll report back later today.

[codejunkie]

thanks for the quick reply ubuntu-geek,
id love to help out but i don't like giving my creditcard info online.

[DigitalDuality]

Well ... i look back 30 min later and there's an option for direct payment without a paypal account. Of course, it's with credit card, but that's fine.

I did a test donation of 5 bucks. I'll watch my bank statement and if all is peachy, i'll donate more. I'd still love to know an alternate method if possible. Thanks alot for looking into that Ubuntu-Geek :)

[Lord Illidan]

Same here. I'd like to donate, but credit card is in the hands of my dad. Doubt I can make him couph up. I think this forum deserves being paid. Thanks to it I know much more Linux than I started out with.

I'll try and donate by helping out in the forums, then.

[christhemonkey]

Yes i have the same problem, no credit card and parents very unlikely to let me use theirs!

[aysiu]

Well ... i look back 30 min later and there's an option for direct payment without a paypal account. Of course, it's with credit card, but that's fine. Am I the only one not seeing the credit card (not PayPal) option? Where is it?

[christhemonkey]

Select custom payment and then there is a secure non paypalian way (i think)

[az]

Canonical had offered to pay for hosting and bandwidth fees. Has that changed?


EDIT:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/ubuntu-meeting-2005-11-03.html
Scroll down to 03:00
http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/archived/2005-09/ubuntu-meeting-2005-09-27.html
Scroll down to 11:58

[Teroedni]

I will donate in the following day.

I guess the ubuntuforums use a secure transfer so there should be no problem with sequerety right?

And do we get marked as donaters no matter the dollar donated?


And lastly, Will there come a status bar so we can see the progress?
I really would like that last one:)

[Klaidas]

A progress bar would be cool ;)

[majikstreet]

A progress bar would be AWESOME!

Here's my issue: I'd like to donate, but I'm not really going to be able to donate money wise.. Is there any other way I could help ubuntuforums? I wish I could pay back everyone who has helped me!

[phen]

hello!

my visa doesnt work... i am trying from germany. the error is, that my session is expired or something, but that can't be the real cause (i tried twice, the second time very fast)

Now, i dont want to try it again: maybe one of the transactions worked, and i don't want to donate more...

[Rita]

I can't get it to work either, I tried several times, but it says session expired and keeps asking me to log in, but no matter how many times I do, it still won't pay the funds.

[cwaldbieser]

I guess the ubuntuforums use a secure transfer so there should be no problem with sequerety right?

I tried looking for the browser lock icon but couldn't find it. I'm not sure if it's because the paypal page is in a frame or something, but I am a little leery of putting my info out there without knowing if it is https.

[aysiu]

I tried looking for the browser lock icon but couldn't find it. I'm not sure if it's because the paypal page is in a frame or something, but I am a little leery of putting my info out there without knowing if it is https. It's in a frame. If you take it out of the frame, you'll see it's https.

[Rita]

I'll check into another way for you guys to donate. I'd rather not accept checks/money orders but I am sure there is another method out there. I'll report back later today.

I can send money by paypal, logging onto their site direct if I have an email address, as I did that for Ubuntu Linux , using their donation email addy.

[nala]

A progress bar would be cool ;)

I like that idea. :)



Paypal seems to be buggy today. I clicked the "donate ten dollars" link and it gave me a 404 error. I tried another and Paypal didn't recognize my perfectly valid debit card. Since it's registered to a Paypay account, I can't use this debit card without logging in. I don't have any other cards that I can use.

Is there any way I can just send a money order instead? =/

[ubuntu-geek]

I made a change to the donate page. You can re-click that link at top that should fix issues.. :)

Or.. http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php?page=donate

I'll update that page with our goal and how much we have shortly thanks for everyones support.

[Rita]

I made a change to the donate page. You can re-click that link at top that should fix issues.. :)

Or.. http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php?page=donate

I'll update that page with our goal and how much we have shortly thanks for everyones support.

Thanks for that, I have just donated $10.00.

[earobinson]

Canonical had offered to pay for hosting and bandwidth fees. Has that changed?


EDIT:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/ubuntu-meeting-2005-11-03.html
Scroll down to 03:00
http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/archived/2005-09/ubuntu-meeting-2005-09-27.html
Scroll down to 11:58
Read the thread and I cant seem to find an answer to this question, I understood that we where servers soon to a free Canonical one.

[ubuntu-geek]

Read the thread and I cant seem to find an answer to this question, I understood that we where servers soon to a free Canonical one.
I answered it in another thread..

[az]

I answered it in another thread..
Somewhere, James Troup's cellphone is ringing...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140702