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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>What if you donate $50 today -- and then in 3 months you find out that same $50 will now also get you that choice bit of Swag you've been longing for.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Do you (a) feel deeply embittered and blog nastily about the injustice of it all, or (b) just sigh quietly at the hard ways of the world and look wistfully out the window for a little while?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>always looking for the bright side,</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>-mpg</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell@shaw.ca]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Fri 8/25/2006 7:39 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Frank Warmerdam<BR><B>Cc:</B> Jason Birch; Michael P. Gerlek; board@board.osgeo.org; Laura Rivera<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OSGeo-Board] Re: [VisCom] RE: [OSGeo-Board] RE: [Fundraising] OSGeo "Donate" Buttons<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>I agree with Frank... we should hold off on doing any sort of <BR>'official' status around donations through a paypal button. I do, <BR>however, think we could have a general donate now button that is not <BR>tied to membership or official receipts, etc. ... until the <BR>membership process in finalised.<BR><BR>Tyler<BR><BR>On 25-Aug-06, at 5:14 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:<BR>><BR>> It is my opinion that we should hold off on the "Supporting member"<BR>> shirts till such time as we have a web application to collect <BR>> memberships.<BR>> Then we can have folks go through the membership application and <BR>> then give<BR>> them the option to do the shirt thing and we can manually relate <BR>> the purchase<BR>> with their membership record and set a "supporting member" bit.<BR>><BR>> I would also like to think that a supporting membership should be <BR>> considered<BR>> a charitable donation and should include a tax receipt. Since we <BR>> don't know<BR>> how to do that, we might want to wait a bit till the details are <BR>> worked out.<BR>><BR>> Best regards,<BR>> --<BR>> ---------------------------------------<BR>> +--------------------------------------<BR>> I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <BR>> warmerdam@pobox.com<BR>> light and sound - activate the windows | <A href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</A><BR>> and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, <A href="http:///">http://</A><BR>> osgeo.org<BR>><BR>><BR>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: board-unsubscribe@board.osgeo.org<BR>> For additional commands, e-mail: board-help@board.osgeo.org<BR>><BR><BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>To unsubscribe, e-mail: board-unsubscribe@board.osgeo.org<BR>For additional commands, e-mail: board-help@board.osgeo.org<BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>