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You go {non-discriminatory gender word}! What a creative way to get people's attention...
If/when I close on the new fulltime job that I found as a result of the existence of Perl Monks, the site's going to get a chunk of money from me -- and I'm going to set up a monthly or quarterly reminder on my calendar to make sure I don't forget that the costs here are ongoing. The value of this site to me has been off the charts.

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Re:x2 Let's Make It Happen!
by grinder (Bishop) on Jun 28, 2001 at 17:21 UTC

    This is all well and good. I'd love to make a donation to cover the costs. But the trouble is I am paid un a worthless non-US currency (given the current exchange rates). And PayPal is terribly US-centric. So what is a europerlmonk to do? Or a PacRim monk? or an African monk? Whatever.


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      You can make your sig one font size larger for the blind Americans! :-)

      $PM = "Perl Monk's";
      $MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot";
      $nysus = $PM . $MCF;
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      I agree, and to clarify a bit, I tried PayPal and eventually got annoyed. They make non-US residents jump through a lot of hoops, which might have been something I'd perservere with if I needed to use it for more than just one site. Giving up money is painful enough - being asked to go through a series of trials first is just too much. :( So what are the other options? I don't wear nerd clothes (actually I do, just not T-shirts), and buying books through fatbrain isn't a great option either.

      There is a large number of active EuroMonks, so it would make sense for PM to look into setting up something a lot less painful in order to get some donations from us. Even a name & address would be better than what's currently in place (in fact, I'd prefer that - no $$ wasted on middlemen).

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        This article had some interesting points. on micropayments.

        Including the following:

        ... "According to PayPal:

        A single variable rate of 2.2% plus a flat fee of 30¢ will apply to all payments, regardless of payment size or funding source. So he'll make -$0.0555 per lollipop he sells. " ...

        That's probably a damn sight cheaper than setting up your own secure server, and getting certified, and looking after it and ...

        Although paypal is a pain, it's only a one off and then you can give to all those groovy online comix too (my motivation).

        "The future will be better tomorrow."

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      Give what you think is reasonable. It's going to cost you the same money to buy technical books -- think of Perlmonks as another manual.

      I find paypal is fine with a credit card, and that includes $NZ which are 0.40USD and slipping.

      "The future will be better tomorrow."

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      you could always go with the older methods of support like clicking all the banner ads.. buying the t-shirts and stuff. and using links to fatbrain for buying books(see here for details. Personally whenever i am going to buy a book I create link like that on my homenode and use it to buy the book and vroom gets a cut that way.
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