[tor] Noisebridge Tor Project test donations

[Noisebridge Treasurer]

It sounds like you guys are trying to get my permission to pull the trigger
here? Much as I appreciate what is probably an attempt to be thoughtful and
excellent, asking my permission for things I don't have direct authority
over is my pet peeve of the month.

In order for you to begin accepting donations you just need to make sure
that you're keeping track of them. And then when you're back in my time zone
and not hopped up on hacker juice, we can discuss reconciliation details and
implementing some procedure for paying bills. I'll be at the meeting on
Tues. Hope to be moved into the new house by then and possibly less grumpy,
though don't bank on that.

I haven't looked at your donation page yet but I can't think of any ways you
could screw it up. If "Tor Project" shows up in the paypal email, that
sounds sufficient, right? So yeah. Go for it. I'd like to go back to my
standard 2-7 day average response time on emails now. Happy hacking.

K
On Aug 13, 2011 1:02 AM, "Michael C. Toren" <mct at toren.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:05, Michael C. Toren <mct at toren.net> wrote:
>> Hey Kelly,
>>
>> Andy, aestetix, and I are sitting here at CCCamp, and starting to setup
>> http://tor.noisebridge.net so we can accept donations for the Noisebridge
>> Tor Project. I just sent a $1 test through, to see if we have the PayPal
>> layer setup properly, and in such a way that you can track it properly in
>> Xero. When you have a moment, can you please have a look, and let us know
>> if it looks like how you'd like it to, so that you can track the
earmarked
>> donations?
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:29:45PM -0700, Noisebridge Treasurer wrote:
>> Can we cc the tor project mailing list or something here?
>
> Certainly! That's a good idea. cc'd.
>
>> So here's the deal... At present, there's no way for me to differentiate
>> tor donations from other ones like... at all. Xero doesn't import any of
>> the fields that would help us differentiate them. So until we migrate to
>> another accounting system I will have to look up every donation to check
>> if it is a tor donation or not. Meaning that you have to email
>> treasurer@ every time you guys get a donation via paypal. You'll also
>> have to keep a log somewhere so that we can check against periodically
>> (say, monthly?) to make sure I caught them all.
>
> Oh, I see :-( I somehow had the misimpression that if we configured
> PayPal to accept these donations by selling a widget in a PayPal shopping
> cart, or something along those lines, that Xero would be able to integrate
> it more easily.
>
> Okay. Looking at the automated email that PayPal mailed to treasurer
> when I sent my $1 test donation through, it looks like we have enough
> information in the email to determine in an automated way if a PayPal
> transaction is a donation for the Noisebridge Tor Project. Here's a
> snippet from the email:
>
> -----------------------------------
> Donation Details
> -----------------------------------
>
> Total amount: $1.00 USD
> Currency: U.S. Dollars
> Confirmation number: redacted
> Purpose: Noisebridge Tor Project
> Contributor: Michael Toren
>
> I can write a script that can search for these emails, and then do
> whatever with them to make it easier for you. Would you like it if I
> wrote a script to, say, aggregate the list of Noisebridge Tor Project
> donations on a weekly basis, and send out a weekly email with the list of
> transactions for the previous week? We could also expose it so that the
> ongoing list was available to you on a password-protected website or
> something somewhere.
>
> If you're comfortable with that idea, would it be okay if we enabled the
> "Donate" button on http://tor.noisebridge.net/ now?
>
> Thanks,
> -mct
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