[Osmf-talk] Donating via transferwise

[John Whelan]

There are two issues here the first is I get the impression then that 
the instructions for submitting to OSMweekly should read create your 
article then submit a link to it.  You may use you OSM blog etc to 
create an article.  Could this be made a little clearer?  Submit a link 
to what?

The second which is more aimed at the OSMF board or probably Dorothea is 
the current instructions to make a donation cannot be followed as they 
stand for everyone.  The reference field is simply too short for many users.

It also needs clarifying should you put in your name as the instructions 
currently say or your OSM username?

The stupid question on names is which characters can be entered?  This 
is not trivial as many OSM usernames use characters outside Latin 
Alphabet one.

I think once the donation instructions are clarified and corrected then 
that is the time to put something in OSMweekly.

Cheerio John

Manfred A. Reiter wrote on 2020-07-05 9:53 AM:
> Hi John, Samuel,
>
> Samuel is right,
>
> or another possibility the link to your email
>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2020-July/006957.html
>
> Thanks for it.
>
> cheers
>
> ## Manfred Reiter - mobile -
> ## please excuse typos and brevity
> ## http://weeklyOSM.eu
>
> Samuel Darkwah Manu via osmf-talk <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org 
> <mailto:osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org>> schrieb am So., 5. Juli 2020, 15:35:
>
>     Hello John,
>
>     Just as you made a reference to the wiki article on the
>     International Bank Transfers, you need to use a reference link to
>     share information on weeklyOSM. So you can use the wiki link in
>     your email to submit your post to weeklyOSM.
>
>     I hope this helps.
>
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>
>     Samuel
>
>
>
>
>
>     On Sunday, 5 July 2020, 13:21:36 GMT, John Whelan
>     <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     weeklyOSM had a mention that OSM now accepts donations via bank
>     transfer.  What wasn't mentioned was for those of us who have a
>     transferwise account the transfer is free.
>
>     https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Donate/International_Bank_Transfers
>
>     The process is you do a normal transfer of £15 and ignore the
>     fee.  When you put in the bank account details it recognises it is
>     transferring to a transferwise account and removes the fee.
>
>     One problem is the length of the reference field
>
>     "donation Johnwhelan" doesn't fit.  "Don Johnwhelan" does so
>     perhaps change the instructions to "D osmuser name"?  I assume it
>     should be the osmuser name not "[your name]"
>
>     I'm not quite sure where this information should be sent.
>
>     I thought about weeklyOSM but got stuck at the point where it says:
>
>     *Step 2:*Insert the link you want to give us in the search line
>
>     Well yes but link to what?
>
>     Have fun
>
>     Cheerio John
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