OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign(openbsdfoundation.org)
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OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign
http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2018.html
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I 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
awesome people :)
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
awesome people :)
The PayPal links are https
Doesn'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.
It's quite inexcusable today that setting up a certificate is such an inexpensive and easy thing with Let's Encrypt.
I put a recurring $50 donation when the freeBSD controversy came and went.
I hope its useful, not sure what they use the money for.
I hope its useful, not sure what they use the money for.
It 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 :-)
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 :-)
Well, 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?
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
Donations may be made by cheque in CAD/EUR/USD funds to:
The OpenBSD Foundation
8101 160 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T5R 2G9
Why should I mail money to an address written on an http site?
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same address here. Unlikely someone tampered it.
[jwilk got there first]
I just used PayPal for a small one-off donation.
Remember that OpenBSD also represents OpenSSH, which so many of us use every day.
Their 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.
I 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.
I've never heard about that. What's the story? How do you know about it?
I 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.
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