[Mageia-discuss] Some news about donations

[DjeZAeL]

Le 25/09/2010 00:30, Marc Paré a écrit :
> Le 2010-09-24 17:45, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
>> Hi guys !
>>
>> As promised some news about donations.
>>
>> At the moment, more than 1800€ has been raised on paypal account 
>> which create
>> some trouble. As we have just set up our paypal account for Mageia 
>> and as we
>> received many donations for Mageia, we have some limitations by 
>> paypal. I've
>> send many documents to remove those limitations yesterday and today. 
>> So i hope
>> limitations will be removed soon.
>>
>> Why do i speak about limitations, that's because at the very moment 
>> we cannot
>> overpass 2000€ for the incoming money, so you see the point. I keep 
>> on eye on
>> our paypal account to notice any change.
>>
>> Slightly more than 700€ of donation by bank transfert. This is the 
>> solution i
>> recommend even if you may need to go to your bank, there is no 
>> limitation
>>
>> And 50€ by check if my treasurer's information is right :)
>>
>> So that's more than 2500€ for now, keep on, share the adress :
>> http://donate.mageia.org
>>
>> Stay tuned for next news !!
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Wow! Good news considering the little time this has been running.
>
> Is there anything that we could do to help raise the $$$ amount 
> restrictions. Some of our community members may have some financial 
> clout. Why/what are the limitations.
>
> Marc

Hi Folks !
I'm Elodie (aka DjeZAeL), the assistant treasurer of AUFML, and i set up 
the donation campaign.

Here is the message of PayPal about the limitations.

    /*23 sep 2010: *PayPal exige des comptes relevant de la catégorie
    organisation caritative/à but non lucratif des informations
    supplémentaires sur leur organisation. Lors d'une étude récente,
    votre compte a été identifié comme relevant de cette classification.
    Sans réponse de votre part, nous pourrons restreindre l'accès à
    votre compte./
    /PayPal est légalement tenu de respecter les réglementations de
    l'Union européenne concernant le blanchiment d'argent, en collectant
    des informations auprès de ses utilisateurs lorsque ces derniers
    reçoivent des paiements d'un montant total supérieur à la limite
    définie./
    /Si vous avez des difficultés à suivre la procédure, n'hésitez pas à
    nous contacter
    <https://www.paypal.com/fr/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_contact-phone>./
    /Nous vous remercions de votre confiance et vous prions de nous
    excuser pour tout désagrément éventuel./



Here under, the limitations currently enforced on the Paypal account :

	Type de limite 	Montant de la limite 	Il reste 	Date de redéfinition
	Limite de paiement annuelle 	€1 500,00 EUR 	€1 500,00 EUR 	21 sep 2011
	Limite de virement mensuelle 	€750,00 EUR 	€100,00 EUR 	
	Limite de virement annuelle 	€1 000,00 EUR 	€350,00 EUR 	21 sep 2011
	Limite de réception annuelle 	€2 500,00 EUR 	€163,90 EUR 	21 sep 2011


We have already made a transfer of 650,00 EUR to the bank account of 
AUFML in order to have money immediately usable for Mageia.

All the documents required by PayPal were already provided, they are 
being processed.
I'm scanning the PayPal account thoroughly to raise the limits as soon 
as possible.


Elodie (doing her best)


PS: sorry if the paste are in French, the PayPal account is in French 
since AUFML and I are French ;) (and my english is not very good)

-- 
DjeZAeL / Elodie

Utilisatrice de Logiciels Libres et de GNU/Linux
"Le chemin est long mais la voie est Libre"