[Scribus] Donations

[Gregory Pittman]

Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Saturday 14 October 2006 17:47, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>   
>> Maciej Hanski wrote:
>>     
>>> Gregory Pittman napisa?(a):
>>>       
>>>> How do we know, or is there a mechanism to give us feedback about what
>>>> our donation(s) would actually be used for? I realize that the wiki page
>>>> talks about what is needed, but by the time money is donated, it might
>>>> actually go to something else.
>>>>         
>>> Given how hard it is to get an account number from one of the Scribus
>>> guys including Eirik aka ltning from anduin.net who hosts our wiki and
>>> bug tracker sites (see this bug report
>>> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4387 to see what I mean), I must
>>> say, I simply trust them.
>>>       
>> It's not a matter of distrust. I was going to make a donation just now,
>> to see how it worked. One thing firefox tells me as I get to the credit
>> card page is that the information is not encrypted, which has me a
>> little worried. I've had an issue come up with international card fraud
>> (someone took a trip from England to Paris on my card number), and you
>> quickly find out that the rules of liability are more fuzzy.
>>     
>
> The donate page to Scribus hosted anduin servers is encrypted, however as the 
> note reads on the top of the page, it is held within a subframe on the page. 
> This frame is encrypted.
>
> Eirik has graciously supported Scribus via his servers since I joined. I have 
> know him since long before that, and when I joined the dev team a few years 
> ago one of the first things I did was to set up the Mantis tracker using his 
> servers, and since then have come the wiki, and some dev team collaboration 
> and email areas, public cvs and www. has moved to his servers this year.
>   
Well, that's good enough for me. The worry wasn't what's happening on 
his end, it's in between.
I get so annoyed with PayPal spam (I know it's not their fault) I just 
don't want to deal with them -- at least I know all the PayPal messages 
are bogus.

Greg