[Noisebridge-board] Civil Hackers' School giving 2169 as mailing address?
Jacob Appelbaum
jacob at appelbaum.net
Fri Aug 14 17:31:06 UTC 2009
Seth David Schoen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some of you met Ilya Vasilyev, who is going to be running a hacking
> run at Noisebridge this weekend.
>
> Ilya told me that he's trying to set up a PayPal account to receive
> donations for the Civil Hackers' School in Moscow, but although he
> already has a U.S. bank account, PayPal doesn't seem to like the
> fact that the mailing address he gave was in Russia rather than the
> U.S. Ilya asked if he could give 2169 Mission as the mailing address
> for his account in order to facilitate receiving electronic
> contributions.
>
> Is this OK? According to his description, it does not mean that
> Noisebridge is financially sponsoring or endorsing the Civil Hackers'
> School, or entering any particular kind of relationship with it, and
> it also doesn't mean that we should expect to get snailmail for them.
> It seems that it would be more of a means of dealing with bureaucratic
> red tape.
>
I think this is great to support. The Civil Hackers' School is very
inspiring and we should provide support if we are able.
Best,
Jake
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