[Osmf-talk] Reaching out and diversity (Was: Re: AGM and board elections)

[Paul Norman]

On 9/27/2014 7:56 PM, Kate Chapman wrote:
> One thing to think about is that out of all these people attending 
> only two of us are members of the OSMF. Why is the OSMF not relevant? 
> In the case of the Indonesians I've spoken to they can't pay the 
> membership fee because most of them don't have credit cards so 
> therefore can't use Paypal. 
Do you have any suggestions on payment methods that would work with 
them? OSM US used Paypal to send to scholarship students, while Google 
Summer of Code (GSoC) used Google-branded prepaid Visa, which is 
obviously not an option for an individual sending money.

 From GSoC I know international payments can be a pain, and that was 
with a large corporation sending the payments, not individuals which is 
harder. I wouldn't be surprised if the GSoC administrative overhead for 
sending money was comparable to the total OSMF budget.