[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: Online payments for Indymedia

[strypey at riseup.net]

----- Forwarded message from Darrell Johnson <darrell at boswa.com> -----

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 18:56, you wrote:
> Kia ora,
>
> I am a volunteer with Aotearoa.Indymedia.org and we are looking for a way
> for people to make online donations. Indymedia has a philosophy of
> supporting open source initiatives and gift economy concepts as much as
> possible. At the moment many local Indymedia sites use PayPal. If we can
> adopt a better alternative from day 1 it could end up being adopted and
> improved by others in the network.
>
> Do you think your buskware code might be of any use to us?

Possibly...  To sum up its utility briefly: buskpay is a system for offering the donor options through a unified interface.  It makes it easier to change the options since you just have to swap out .busk files rather than modifying your site design.  On the other end, it opens up new possibilities for processing intended donations.

The main issue is lack of support.  I couldn't seem to drum up any enthusiasm for it, and right now, even I'm not doing anything with it.

It's really intended to support users who make large numbers of small donations.  Nobody does that now, and almost nobody is excited about the prospect of being able to do it.  It needs the user to install software, and it seems that almost nobody would bother to do that.

I appreciate your interest, but the system has been so perfectly unsuccessful that I don't think there's much point in continuing to try.  You're welcome to do so (all of my work on it is in the public domain, usable by anyone for any purpose), but I'm completely discouraged.

Regards, Darrell Johnson 

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