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

On 8 Apr 2017, at 17:49, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
> 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!

PayPal has a similar program, called "Giving Fund".  As we're showing up
for Amazon, it's possible we're on PayPal's list too and they've not
mentioned it.  eg:

  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/paypal-charity-donations-giving-fund-lawsuit

Trying various PG related keywords here isn't showing anything, probably
because it's hard coded to only allow charities in the country I'm visiting
the site from (UK):

  https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/hub/

Anyone want to check from the US?

+ Justin

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