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OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign
- divbit 9y agoNote from the about page: "We are not a registered charity, in the sense that we do not issue tax deductible receipts. " Seems still worthwhile to raise awareness.
- divbit 9y ago" and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, LibreSSL, and mandoc. "
- ams6110 9y agoNote that these pages are not served via https, and neither is the donations page[1] which contains links to Paypal. This has been pointed out from time to time on the openbsd "misc" email list but I've never seen a good explanation for why these pages are not secure. [1] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
- protomyth 9y agoThe PayPal links are https
- dullgiulio 9y agoDoesn't matter. Nothing can be trusted on a plain HTTP page. It's quite inexcusable today that setting up a certificate is such an inexpensive and easy thing with Let's Encrypt.
- protomyth 9y agoThe parent made it sound like the PayPal links were also http
- f4rker 9y agoYou must have a lot of free time. Serving such a trivial page over http means little - but to you is apparently the whole world.
- cypher303 9y agoAgreed. What world are people living in when they present payment links on an insecure page in 2018? Um, no dude. I'm not going to click on your link now, nor will I ever. Byyye.
- hessnovTHR44 8y agoI am not related to the OpenBSD team, but just dropped a mail for them and in a few hours I can reach it via HTTPS: https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html awesome people :)
- jwilk 9y agoIt's "OpenBSD", not "Open BSD". Please use the original title: The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign
- dang 9y agoAction taken. No spaces in the wrong places in these parts.
- dheelus 9y agoWell, I want to donate but I don't want to use PayPal. And US banks charge an arm and a leg for wire transfers. Is there a way I can simply mail them a check?
- jwilk 9y agohttp://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html reads: Donations may be made by cheque in CAD/EUR/USD funds to: The OpenBSD Foundation 8101 160 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5R 2G9
- sigjuice 9y agoWhy should I mail money to an address written on an http site?
- gsich 9y agosame address here. Unlikely someone tampered it.
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- hessnovTHR44 8y agohttps://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
- keithpeter 9y ago[jwilk got there first] I just used PayPal for a small one-off donation.
- chrisvalleybay 9y agoRemember that OpenBSD also represents OpenSSH, which so many of us use every day.
- dijit 9y agoI put a recurring $50 donation when the freeBSD controversy came and went. I hope its useful, not sure what they use the money for.
- poolpOrg 8y agoIt is useful, it helps fund the infrastructure, it helps fund hackathons, it helps hosting hackers during the events, it helps bringing developers who would not make it because they wouldn't afford the transportation, it helps getting hardware needed to write new drivers, etc, etc, etc... As far as I'm concerned, a single week of hackathon achieves far more than months of individual work on the side, and the hackathons take place because the foundation can bring many developers together in the same place at the same time thanks to the donations it receives :-)
- insaneirish 9y agoTheir continued unwillingness to create a US 501(c)(3) entity to receive donations from US donors means that they will continue to lose out on a significant number of potential donations.
- thisrod 9y agoI get the impression that OpenBSD has a prejudice against becoming officially involved with the United States, formed in the days when t-shirts were export-restricted munitions.
- forapurpose 9y agoI've never heard about that. What's the story? How do you know about it?
- aomix 9y agoI appreciate OpenBSD. Among other things their focus on making APIs that are impossible to misuse and hacking down the scope of a problem to the bone result in a lot of interesting products. Basically if you have to consult anything beyond the man page for their stuff they've failed. Given those restrictions they tackle big problems with good results.