Issue #14 - No way for donators to be credited

http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/ explains that "the identities of donors are kept confidential to SPI, and only disclosed to members of SPI". This is great for donors who want confidentiality, but I imagine this wastes an incentive to donate. At the very least we should list donating corporations who do not require confidentiality, and ideally list individuals too. When a donation is made, the donor should be asked whether it wants the donation to be public, and perhaps what other data can be disclosed (the amount, an email address, perhaps a website URL).

There could be a page listing donators, starting with those who gave the most. However this would require a somewhat reliable way to associate multiple donations from the same person to a unique identity. One way this could be made is by asking for a SPI member number (but I am unsure that such a number exists). So perhaps listing donating members should be a first step.

Collecting such data may enable SPI to publish statistics on donators (which proportion comes from organizations, which from individuals, how many entities give, etc.). SPI might already have such data, but I am not aware of it.

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Philippe Cloutier
http://www.philippecloutier.com

* Philippe Cloutier <chealer(at)gmail(dot)com> [2018-07-02 10:54]:
> http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/ explains that "the identities of
> donors are kept confidential to SPI, and only disclosed to members
> of SPI". This is great for donors who want confidentiality, but I
> imagine this wastes an incentive to donate.

Yeah, this is actually something we discussed on the board list
recently. Right now, we don't know if donors want to be public or
not.

I think what we need is a donation platform where you can tick a box
before going on to do the payment. The donation system developed by
MetaBrainz is one we could adopt: https://metabrainz.org/donate
DonorBox has also been mentioned as a possibility.

This won't happen soon but is something that should be done at some
point.

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Martin Michlmayr
https://www.cyrius.com/

On 2018-07-02 11:02, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Philippe Cloutier <chealer(at)gmail(dot)com> [2018-07-02 10:54]:
>> http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/ explains that "the identities of
>> donors are kept confidential to SPI, and only disclosed to members
>> of SPI". This is great for donors who want confidentiality, but I
>> imagine this wastes an incentive to donate.
> Yeah, this is actually something we discussed on the board list
> recently. Right now, we don't know if donors want to be public or
> not.
>
> I think what we need is a donation platform where you can tick a box
> before going on to do the payment. The donation system developed by
> MetaBrainz is one we could adopt: https://metabrainz.org/donate
> DonorBox has also been mentioned as a possibility.

MetaBrainz's seems unable to associate multiple donations from a single entity, but it looks good. It lists organizations and individuals in the same list.

>
> This won't happen soon but is something that should be done at some
> point.
>

Yeah, it requires important effort, but it should boost fundraising much.

Thank you for the information

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Philippe Cloutier
http://www.philippecloutier.com