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 @derickr well that depends on the budget naturally. Essentially donations need to be total budget - membership fees - any surplus from conferences. This year that is £500'000 and a bit. See https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2023-02/Budget 8 comments
 @simon my membership lapsed because I can't be arsed to do the complications around paying OSMF @derickr @simon in the UK you can use a bank transfer. If the forms annoy you(fair), you can st transfer and we'll still use the cash to pay for bandwidth. https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/alternative-payment-options/ @grischard @simon That's what I did, I had set up a direct debit, but I got my money returned a few times. So I gave up on that too. @derickr you need to discuss that with @grischard ... but I suspect the gist is that the OSMF is happy to have at least one payment processor at all. @simon @derickr indeed. We've tried a few, from Mollie which had the rudest customer service and almost stole our money, to Wise who blew a fuse when we had non-paying members in countries not under sanctions but they considered dodgy. Huge drain of volunteer time, hugely thankful to current banks and providers. @grischard @simon Wouldn't Stripe subscriptions work for most countries though? Works a treat for my use case. |
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@simon Sure, but put that up and front. The current membership recurrent payment is only through PayPal which isn't appropriate.