Dear R Users, I know issues like this have come up in the past. I am wondering how many people would be interested in an online mechanism for donating to the R Foundation or for becoming supporting members. Right now, the link for it is somewhat buried on the R home page, and once you get there, the options are to mail or fax a form. IIRC, Paypal was not a good option due to some fees, but just making the form submittable online would make things a lot easier. Also credit cards expire and then new numbers need to be sent. I printed the form to mail off, but anecdotally I had planned on this for well over a year and kept putting it off. If this is something that useRs and the R Foundation would be interested in, I would be happy to help work on setting something up and maintaining it. Cheers, Josh -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/
For my part, knowing all of my (mostly bad) habits, I would only donate if I could do it online. And I would be happy to donate! Cheers David Cross d.cross at tcu.edu www.davidcross.us On Sep 24, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Joshua Wiley wrote:> Dear R Users, > > I know issues like this have come up in the past. I am wondering how > many people would be interested in an online mechanism for donating to > the R Foundation or for becoming supporting members. Right now, the > link for it is somewhat buried on the R home page, and once you get > there, the options are to mail or fax a form. IIRC, Paypal was not a > good option due to some fees, but just making the form submittable > online would make things a lot easier. Also credit cards expire and > then new numbers need to be sent. > > I printed the form to mail off, but anecdotally I had planned on this > for well over a year and kept putting it off. If this is something > that useRs and the R Foundation would be interested in, I would be > happy to help work on setting something up and maintaining it. > > Cheers, > > Josh > > > -- > Joshua Wiley > Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology > Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group > University of California, Los Angeles > https://joshuawiley.com/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com> wrote:> I printed the form to mail off, but anecdotally I had planned on this > for well over a year and kept putting it off. ?If this is something > that useRs and the R Foundation would be interested in, I would be > happy to help work on setting something up and maintaining it. >If the R Core accepts this, I would very much prefer to have an on-line system to make donations. Personally I would like to make a donation, but I'm uncomfortable with sending my credit card details by mail. Regards Liviu
If there is an ONLINE mechanism, I will donate. j Joshua Wiley wrote:> Dear R Users, > > I know issues like this have come up in the past. I am wondering how > many people would be interested in an online mechanism for donating to > the R Foundation or for becoming supporting members. Right now, the > link for it is somewhat buried on the R home page, and once you get > there, the options are to mail or fax a form. IIRC, Paypal was not a > good option due to some fees, but just making the form submittable > online would make things a lot easier. Also credit cards expire and > then new numbers need to be sent. > > I printed the form to mail off, but anecdotally I had planned on this > for well over a year and kept putting it off. If this is something > that useRs and the R Foundation would be interested in, I would be > happy to help work on setting something up and maintaining it. > > Cheers, > > Josh > >