From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:53:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Rephrase the donations section some more
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Rephrase the donations section some more
Mention that the domain is now sponsored by Mythic Beasts Ltd
and make it clear that asking questions about donations is
possible, too.
---
diff --git a/doc/source/faq.sgml b/doc/source/faq.sgml
index 4c655ad8..32d9562a 100644
--- a/doc/source/faq.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/faq.sgml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.81 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.82 2011/11/13 16:50:34 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.81 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.82 2011/11/13 16:50:34 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
@@ -506,8 +506,36 @@ warranty? Registration?</title>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> is developed by unpaid volunteers
and thus our current running costs are pretty low. Nevertheless, we
- have plans that will cost money in the future. We would like to get
- this money through donations made by our users.
+ have plans that will cost money in the future. They include,
+ but aren't limited to spending money on:
+
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
+ keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test
+ on and can be ported to others.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
+ or to improve their knowledge in general.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ More reliable hosting,
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ We would like to get this money through donations made by our users.
</para>
<para>
@@ -519,25 +547,19 @@ warranty? Registration?</title>
</para>
<para>
- We intend to use the donations to pay for our domain after transferring
- it to SPI. Our goal is to make sure there's no single point of failure
- and the bill gets paid and the site keeps running even if a some of
- the currently active developers were to suddenly disappear for a while.
-</para>
-
-<para>
- We would also like to spend some money on more reliable hosting,
- on hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
- keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test on,
- and on technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
- or to improve their knowledge in general.
+ If you read this section before you may notice that paying for the
+ project domain privoxy.org is no longer on the list. It has been
+ transferred to SPI is sponsored by Mythic Beasts Ltd.
</para>
<para>
If you enjoy our software and feel like helping out with a donation,
please have a look at
<ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
- to see what the options are.
+ to see what the options are. If you have any questions regarding donations
+ please mail to either the public user mailing list or, if it's a private
+ matter, to <ulink url="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de">Fabian Keil</ulink>
+ (Privoxy's SPI liason) directly.
</para>
</sect3>
@@ -2970,6 +2992,13 @@ browsing has slowed to a crawl. What gives? </title>
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
$Log: faq.sgml,v $
+Revision 2.82 2011/11/13 16:50:34 fabiankeil
+Note that donations for Privoxy are currently only tax-deductible in the US
+
+As it turns out tax-deductible donations in a few other western
+countries are theoretically possible through partner organizations
+but aren't available out of the box.
+
Revision 2.81 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil
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