On 16 December 2011 13:36, Ganesh Sittampalam
Would a donation to haskell.org include a fee to SPI? I couldn't find any information on their website.
Yes - 5% goes to SPI to cover their overheads. It's detailed in http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/associated-project-howto/ but not on their donations page at http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/.
5% seems reasonable to me and in line with what similar "donation aggregators" charge, for example the Charities Aid Foundation in the UK charges 4%: https://www.cafonline.org/my-personal-giving/plan-your-giving/individual-cha...
Yes, that sounds reasonable. Credit cards donations also cause an overhead of 4.5% (and the 5% are deducted from the rest), so the total overhead for a credit card donation would be: (1 - 0.955 * 0.95) = 9.3% That's fairly high, but I don't see a way around that.
In effect we've been getting the admin for free from Galois up till now, but it's been getting too troublesome for them.
Yes, I certainly understand that. The other reason are tax-deductible donations, which I assume isn't really possible with Galois handling all the financials. / Thomas