Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Is the Postgres Association part ofsmile.amazon.com?

On 04/08/2017 07:45 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings, Eric,
>
> * Eric Ridge (eebbrr@gmail.com) wrote:
>> They indicate that one reason could be that while Amazon knows about the
>> charity, the charity isn't actually registered.
>
> I'll take a look into this (I'm one of the board members of PgUS).
>
>> If this is case, y'all might consider working out how to do that via
>> https://org.amazon.com/.  I don't know how painless the charity
>> registration process is, but it's pretty painless for an Amazon shopper
>> (like myself) to transparently donate via smile.amazon.com.  Maybe y'all
>> have already decided this isn't a thing you want to be involved in?
>
> This seems like a pretty good idea to me, so I'll see what can be done.
>
>> Anyways, I wanted to ask.  Amazon has donated something like $46M to
>> charities since February this year, and it'd be cool if some of that went
>> to Postgres.
>
> Definitely!
>
>> Thanks for your time and consideration!
>
> Thanks for bringing it up!

I had no idea Amazon Smile could send money to PG.US -- definitely worth
pursuing!

Joe

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