[Foundation-l] e-gold proposal

Thu Dec 16 18:30:18 UTC 2004

If you've signed the representation agreement Jimbo, Foundation has an 
official agent in France : Wikimédia France. As soon as you've signed and 
returned the bylaws, the association will be registered. It will be then 
extremely simple for Wikimédia France to open a Euro bank account in the 
name of Foundation.
villy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] e-gold proposal

|I agree with Mav's recommendations and concerns.
|
| I think the priority is going to be getting us set up with a merchant
| account to be able to accept Visa and Mastercard and JCB.  We also
| need to try to find out how to get a European bank account so that method
| of payment can be done.
|
|
| Daniel Mayer wrote:
|
| > --- Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
| > > A proposal follows that is commercial in nature. I am posting it to 
this
| > > list per the instructions of one of the Wikimedia Foundation Board 
members.
| > > *****************
| > > I would like to encourage the Wikimedia Foundation to:
| > >
| > >     * Accept e-gold www.e-gold.com donations,
| > >     * Post a prominent link to the e-gold site, using syntax that 
would
| > >       enable the Foundation to capture referral incentives.
| > >
| > >
| > > ....
| > >
| > > Not knowing e-gold and aware of the imperfection of the paypal system, 
I read
| > > with interest all comments offered on the matter before making my 
opinion.
| > >
| > > Since he is in charge of the matter, I think Mav opinion on the topic 
will be
| > > of primary impact.
| >
| > I've looked into it a bit, but am still very confused on how this would 
work
| > and whether the pool of people using e-gold is large enough to warrant 
our
| > attention yet. I'm also very hesitant to add yet another third party 
handling
| > our donations (presenting too many choices to people turns them away and 
having
| > yet-another-account makes things more difficult for me to keep track of 
things
| > - PayPal is very good at making this easy).
| >
| > What we need is a way by which the great majority of likely donors can 
donate
| > easily. IMO, the PayPal/Moneybookers/mail donation set-up allows for 
that
| > already. But I'm willing to listen and learn.
| >
| > -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
| >
| >
| >
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