I'm sure there are a number of people who would contribute, once the word gets out.
Does anyone know if donating to an AU nonprofit (like Bouncy Castle) is tax deductible for a US person/company?
Thanks for the suggestion, I think in our case we'd need to avoid anything which placed restrictions on who could access the libraries, although that wouldn't necessarily stop us selling licenses either, so we will be sure to consider what you say. At the moment, if you just consider it on all raw artifacts downloaded a donation around $20 AUD each over the last fortnight would have raised our target, currently we're averaging around 10 cents. It's pretty obvious we're not doing something right.
We were pretty sure when we started that this was more of a campaign than a single battle, and we're certainly keen to focus on something other than fund raising, but we're going to need a few more donations before we're in a position to do that.
Post by Sid ShetyeHere are my thoughts on balancing the reality of balancing external,
real world expenses (FIPS certification!) with the objective of having
a great FOSS crypto-library
Price: About USD 100 to 500 (or equivalent currently in developers'
country for, say, 50 cups of Starbucks coffee)
1) Usage of FIPS-140-2 certified binaries AND
2) released within the last 12 months AND
3) for a activity presently generating revenue or an activity directly
supporting previously mentioned revenue-generating activity
Scope: Enterprise level license with free upgrades for 3 years (so if
it's one major server app or a tiny desktop background utility over
5000 PCs - one size fits all)
Price: Donate
Conditions: If doesn't match conditions of commercial license
Scope: Per project
The reason I suggest this is because in corporate America (perhaps
elsewhere too), it's harder to file an expense report under
"donations". It works only if everyone in the purchase authorization
chain "gets" FOSS donations. On the other hand, everyone understands
"software licensing" as its usually a separate line item in the
accounting books and a 3 figured license, for security software, in revenue activities, won't ever be questioned.
I realize there are *many* ways to slice this, but as a non-profit,
that would be my $0.02 so you guys can focus more on the technology
and certification than fund-raising.
Cheers
Sid
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:39 PM
Subject: [dev-crypto-csharp] latest BC news
Hi all,
Just a quick update on where the fundraising is going. First, I'd like
to thank everyone who has donated to date. I think I should also
mention we are off to a bit of a slow start.
You can find the latest details of where we are at in our latest slashdot
http://slashdot.org/submission/3188511/ask-slashdot-cryptographers-cro
wdfund
ing-and-cluelessness
Feel free to add a comment or a suggestion if you wish, we'll be
following the thread and endeavouring to reply to any questions that
come up. It is also a much better place for this discussion than the
mailing lists. Feel free to vote the story up - as the tale describes,
we can do with all the help we can get!
I'll report on the progress of the "adventure" next week.
Regards,
David
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