[Osmf-talk] Donating via transferwise

[John Whelan]

Well at least it is system tested now and the wiki has been updated.

I'll throw together a quick something forOSMweekly.

It's actually cheaper for me to donate through Transferwise than paypal 
as paypal hit me with a really poor conversion rate from Canadian dollars.

Cheerio John

Guillaume Rischard wrote on 2020-07-11 7:09 PM:
> Hi John,
>
> Thank you for donating! As someone with a slightly long full name, I 
> feel your pain. The OSM username is fine, and in any case, we got your 
> name in the transfer.
>
> The name in the reference helps us find transfers again more easily.
>
> Thank you again,
>
> Guillaume
> OSMF Treasurer
>
>> On 5 Jul 2020, at 15:19, 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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