[Theforum] community vs. corporations (was: funding options)

[Marlene Bruce]

Hi Lach,

>I do have a bamk account which could be used, but it usually has very little
>money in it, as it's just used to temporarily store money before moving it
>to award saver.

What's award saver?

>Also, considering what John said about paypal and
>international accounts, we probably need to find some other way for intl
>people to pay.

+1.

>  > This is an interesting idea. Is this like people who do a 5K run for a
>>  charity ... sponsorship, except by only one sponsor instead of a group
>>  of sponsors?
>
>Basically, yeah. I suppose you could also, if you wanted, make someone able
>to be sponsored by a corp - the corp could work out details with the member,
>such as a 'supported by ibm' (or whatever) badge on every page of their
>account. Dunno whether that's a good idea or not though.

When it comes down to doing something, I think we should get the
donations page up on the site before we tackle something like this.
Is there a list of fund collecting ideas anywhere on the wiki? If
not, I'll start one.

Thanks,
Marlene