OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

ams6110 8 years ago |

Note that these pages are not served via https, and neither is the donations page[1] which contains links to Paypal.

This has been pointed out from time to time on the openbsd "misc" email list but I've never seen a good explanation for why these pages are not secure.

[1] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

hessnovTHR44 8 years ago | |

I am not related to the OpenBSD team, but just dropped a mail for them and in a few hours I can reach it via HTTPS:

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

awesome people :)

protomyth 8 years ago | |

The PayPal links are https

dullgiulio 8 years ago | | |

Doesn't matter. Nothing can be trusted on a plain HTTP page.

It's quite inexcusable today that setting up a certificate is such an inexpensive and easy thing with Let's Encrypt.

cypher303 8 years ago | | |

Agreed. What world are people living in when they present payment links on an insecure page in 2018? Um, no dude. I'm not going to click on your link now, nor will I ever. Byyye.

protomyth 8 years ago | | |

The parent made it sound like the PayPal links were also http

chrisvalleybay 8 years ago |

Remember that OpenBSD also represents OpenSSH, which so many of us use every day.

dheelus 8 years ago |

Well, I want to donate but I don't want to use PayPal. And US banks charge an arm and a leg for wire transfers. Is there a way I can simply mail them a check?

jwilk 8 years ago | |

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html reads:

Donations may be made by cheque in CAD/EUR/USD funds to:

The OpenBSD Foundation

8101 160 Street

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

T5R 2G9

sigjuice 8 years ago | | |

Why should I mail money to an address written on an http site?

hessnovTHR44 8 years ago | | |

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

gsich 8 years ago | | |

same address here. Unlikely someone tampered it.

keithpeter 8 years ago | |

[jwilk got there first] I just used PayPal for a small one-off donation.

insaneirish 8 years ago |

Their continued unwillingness to create a US 501(c)(3) entity to receive donations from US donors means that they will continue to lose out on a significant number of potential donations.

thisrod 8 years ago | |

I get the impression that OpenBSD has a prejudice against becoming officially involved with the United States, formed in the days when t-shirts were export-restricted munitions.

forapurpose 8 years ago | |

I've never heard about that. What's the story? How do you know about it?

aomix 8 years ago |

I appreciate OpenBSD. Among other things their focus on making APIs that are impossible to misuse and hacking down the scope of a problem to the bone result in a lot of interesting products. Basically if you have to consult anything beyond the man page for their stuff they've failed. Given those restrictions they tackle big problems with good results.

dijit 8 years ago |

I put a recurring $50 donation when the freeBSD controversy came and went.

I hope its useful, not sure what they use the money for.

poolpOrg 8 years ago | |

It is useful, it helps fund the infrastructure, it helps fund hackathons, it helps hosting hackers during the events, it helps bringing developers who would not make it because they wouldn't afford the transportation, it helps getting hardware needed to write new drivers, etc, etc, etc...

As far as I'm concerned, a single week of hackathon achieves far more than months of individual work on the side, and the hackathons take place because the foundation can bring many developers together in the same place at the same time thanks to the donations it receives :-)

divbit 8 years ago |

Note from the about page: "We are not a registered charity, in the sense that we do not issue tax deductible receipts. " Seems still worthwhile to raise awareness.

divbit 8 years ago | |

" and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, LibreSSL, and mandoc. "

jwilk 8 years ago |

It's "OpenBSD", not "Open BSD". Please use the original title:

The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

dang 8 years ago | |

Action taken. No spaces in the wrong places in these parts.