617 lines
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HTML
617 lines
29 KiB
HTML
{% extends "base_conservancy.html" %}
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{% block subtitle %}Campaign - {% endblock %}
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{% block category %}campaign{% endblock %}
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{% block head %}
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<link href="/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
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<script src="/jquery.min.js"></script>
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<script src="/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
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<style type="text/css">
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#progressbar .ui-widget-header { background: rgb(206, 31, 31); }
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</style>
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<script type="text/javascript">
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$(document).ready(function() {
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$("#progressbar").progressbar({ value: (2515 / 75000) * 100 });
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$('.toggle-content').hide();
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$('.toggle-control')
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.addClass('clickable')
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.bind('click', function() {
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var $control = $(this);
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var $parent = $control.parents('.toggle-unit');
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$parent.toggleClass('expanded');
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$parent.find('.toggle-content').slideToggle();
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// if control has HTML5 data attributes, use to update text
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if ($parent.hasClass('expanded')) {
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$control.html($control.attr('data-expanded-text'));
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} else {
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$control.html($control.attr('data-text'));
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}
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})
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});
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</script>
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{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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<div style="position:fixed;top:180px;right:2%;width=18%">
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<table style="background-color:#afe478;width=100%;">
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<tr><td style="text-align:center;padding:10px;padding-bottom:10px;">
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<!--
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<script type="text/javascript" src="https://js.balancedpayments.com/v1/balanced.js"></script>
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<script type="text/javascript">
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// FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY - if you already have a server you can POST to, replace
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// the URL with the URL to post to.
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// go to http://requestb.in/
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// click create new request bin and COPY that URL without the ?inspect at the end
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var requestBinURL = 'http://requestb.in/1dk2x8y1'; // make sure it doesn't end in ?inspect
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var marketplaceUri = '/v1/marketplaces/TEST-MPMp7ZUPDpbj69vk2wGHRVY';
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//var marketplaceUri = 'https://www.balancedpayments.com/marketplaces/TEST-MPMp7ZUPDpbj69vk2wGHRVY';
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balanced.init(marketplaceUri);
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var cardData = {
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"name": "Bernhard Riemann", // Optional
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"card_number": "4111 1111 1111 1111",
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"expiration_month": 4,
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"expiration_year": 2014,
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};
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function evbind(el, ev, handler) {
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if(el.addEventListener) {
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el.addEventListener(ev, handler, false);
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} else if(el.attachEvent) {
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el.attachEvent('on'+ev, function() {handler.apply(el);});
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}
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}
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/*
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function responseCallbackHandler(response) {
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alert(response.status);
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switch (response.status) {
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case 400:
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// missing or invalid field - check response.error for details
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console.log(response.error);
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break;
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case 404:
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// your marketplace URI is incorrect
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console.log(response.error);
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break;
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case 201:
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// WOO HOO! MONEY!
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// response.data.uri == URI of the bank account resource you
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// should store this bank account URI to later credit it
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console.log(response.data);
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var $form = $("#bank-account-form");
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// the uri is an opaque token referencing the tokenized bank account
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var bank_account_uri = response.data['uri'];
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// append the token as a hidden field to submit to the server
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$('<input>').attr({
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type: 'hidden',
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value: bank_account_uri,
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name: 'balancedBankAccountURI'
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}).appendTo($form);
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$form.attr({action: requestBinURL});
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$form.get(0).submit();
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break;
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default:
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console.log(response.status);
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}
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}
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//alert('allo?');
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var tokenizeInstrument = function(e) {
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alert('what"s going on?');
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e.preventDefault();
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var $form = $('#bank-account-form');
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var bankAccountData = {
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name: $form.find('.ba-name').val(),
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account_number: $form.find('.ba-an').val(),
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bank_code: $form.find('.ba-rn').val(),
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type: $form.find('select').val()
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};
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balanced.bankAccount.create(bankAccountData, responseCallbackHandler);
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};
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$('#bank-account-form').submit(tokenizeInstrument);
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*/
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</script>
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-->
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<p>$2,515 raised toward<br/>
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our $75,000 goal.</p>
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<div id="progressbar" style="height:20px;"></div>
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<p><font style="font-size: 25%">(Progress bar updated daily.)</font></p>
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<p>Help us reach our goal:</p>
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<!-- Google Checkout start -->
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<script type="text/javascript">
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function validateAmount(amount){
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if(amount.value.match( /^[0-9]+(\.([0-9]+))?$/)){
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return true;
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}else{
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alert('You must enter a valid donation.');
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amount.focus();
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return false;
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}
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}
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</script>
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<form action="https://checkout.google.com/cws/v2/Donations/622836985124940/checkoutForm" id="BB_BuyButtonForm" method="post" name="BB_BuyButtonForm" onSubmit="return validateAmount(this.item_price_1)" target="_top">
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<input name="item_name_1" type="hidden" value="Directed Donation for Conservancy's NPO accounting software project"/>
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<input name="item_description_1" type="hidden" value="This donation to the Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is directed toward Conservancy's NPO accounting software project. Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) charity in New York."/>
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<input name="item_quantity_1" type="hidden" value="1"/>
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<input name="item_currency_1" type="hidden" value="USD"/>
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<input name="item_is_modifiable_1" type="hidden" value="true"/>
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<input name="item_min_price_1" type="hidden" value="6.0"/>
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<input name="item_max_price_1" type="hidden" value="25000.0"/>
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<input name="_charset_" type="hidden" value="utf-8"/>
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<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="1%">
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<tr>
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<td align="right" valign="top" style="padding-top:9px;" nowrap="nowrap" width="1%">$ <input id="item_price_1" name="item_price_1" onfocus="this.style.color='black'; this.value='';" size="6" type="text" value="250.00"/>
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</td>
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<td align="left" width="1%">
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<input alt="Donate" src="https://checkout.google.com/buttons/donateNow.gif?merchant_id=622836985124940&w=115&h=50&style=trans&variant=text&loc=en_US" type="image"/>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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</form>
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<!-- Google Checkout end -->
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<!-- PayPal start -->
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<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
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<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
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<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="3VRTJALJ5PQRW">
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<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
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<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
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</form>
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<!-- PayPal end -->
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<!-- Flattr start -->
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<p><a href="https://flattr.com/thing/1296704/Campaign-to-develop-Free-and-Open-Source-Non-Profit-Accounting-Software" target="_blank"><img src="https://api.flattr.com/button/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a></p>
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<!-- Flattr end -->
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<!-- Balanced start -
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<div class="container">
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- <form action="#" method="POST" id="bank-account-form" class="form-horizontal" onsubmit="balanced.card.create(cardData, function(response) { alert(response.status); });"> -
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<form action="#" method="POST" id="bank-account-form" class="form-horizontal">
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<fieldset>
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<legend>Bank Account Information</legend>
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<p><label>Account Holder's Name
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<input type="text"
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autocomplete="off"
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placeholder="Bank Account Holder's name"
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class="ba-name"
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name="ba_name"
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value="4111 1111 1111 1111">
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</label></p>
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<p><label>Routing Number
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<input type="text"
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autocomplete="off"
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placeholder="Routing Number"
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class="ba-rn"
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name="ba_rn"
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value="4">
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</label></p>
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<p><label>Account Number
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<input type="text"
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autocomplete="off"
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placeholder="Account Number"
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class="ba-an"
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name="ba_an"
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value="2014">
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</label></p>
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<p><label>Account Something
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<input type="text"
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autocomplete="off"
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placeholder="Account Something"
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class="ba-as"
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name="ba_as"
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value="something someone">
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</label></p>
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<p><label>Account Type
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<select name="ba_type">
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<option value='' disabled selected style='display:none;'>
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Select Account Type
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</option>
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<option value="checking" default>CHECKING</option>
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<option value="savings">SAVINGS</option>
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</select>
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</label></p>
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<button type="submit" class="btn">
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Tokenize
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</button>
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</fieldset>
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</form>
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</div>
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<script type="text/javascript">
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evbind(document.getElementById('bank-account-form'), 'submit',
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function(e) {
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e.preventDefault();
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console.log(this.ba_as.value);
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balanced.card.create(
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{
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"name": this.ba_as.value,
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"card_number": this.ba_name.value,
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"expiration_month": this.ba_rn.value,
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"expiration_year": this.ba_an.value,
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/*
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"name": "Bernhard Riemann", // Optional
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"card_number": "4111 1111 1111 1111",
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"expiration_month": 4,
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"expiration_year": 2014,
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*/
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},
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function(response) {
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console.log(response);
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console.log(response.data.uri);
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$.ajax("/campaign/?token=" + response.data.uri + '&amount=' + document.getElementById('bank-account-form').ba_an.value);
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alert(response.status);
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});
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});
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</script>
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- Balanced end -->
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<div class="toggle-unit">
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<h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Donate by Wire Transfer?"
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data-expanded-text="Donate by Wire Transfer:">Donate by Wire Transfer?</h4>
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<div class="toggle-content">
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Please
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contact <a href="mailto:accounting@sfconservancy.org">Conservancy
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by email</a><br/> for wire transfer instructions.<br/>
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Please Include your currency and country.<br/>
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</div><!-- /.toggle-content -->
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</div><!-- /.toggle.unit -->
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<div class="toggle-unit">
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<h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Donate by Paper Check?"
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data-expanded-text="Donate by Paper Check:">Donate by Paper Check?</h4>
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<div class="toggle-content">
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Send paper check donations to:<br/>
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Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.<br/>
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137 MONTAGUE ST STE 380<br/>
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BROOKLYN, NY 11201-3548<br/>
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Please write <q>NPO ACCOUNTING</q> in the memo line.
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</div><!-- /.toggle-content -->
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</div><!-- /.toggle.unit -->
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</td></tr></table>
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</div>
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<div style="align:left;width:75%;">
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<!-- begin campaign text -->
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<h2>Fundraising Campaign: Non-Profit Accounting Software</h2>
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<img src="/img/conservancy-accounting-campaign-logo.png" alt="Conservancy accounting campaign logo" style="float:left;" />
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<p>Please help all non-profit organizations (NPOs) by <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/campaign">donating</a> to Conservancy
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to begin creating an Open Source and Free Software accounting system usable by non-technical bookkeepers,
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accountants, and non-profit managers.</p>
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<p>To keep books and produce annual government filings, NPOs must
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maintain complicated home grown systems. Most use proprietary
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software, paying exorbitant licensing fees — fundamentally at cross purposes with their underlying missions of
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charity, equality, democracy, and sharing.</p>
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<p>You can help Conservancy fix this problem by <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/campaign">donating now</a>. We seek to
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raise $75,000 to employ a
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developer one year to make substantial progress on this project.</p>
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<p>If successful, this project will save the non-profit sector many
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millions every year in licensing fees. Even non-profits that continue to use proprietary accounting
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software will benefit, since the existence of quality Open Source and Free
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Software for a particular task curtails predatory behavior by proprietary
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software companies, and creates a new standard of comparison.</p>
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<p>But, more powerfully, this project's realization
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will increase the agility and collaborative potential
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for the non-profit sector — a boon to funders, boards, employees, and the
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populations they serve — bringing the Free Software and general NPO communities
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into closer collaboration and understanding.</p>
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<p>Thanks in advance for <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/campaign">helping us</a> develop Free Software to benefit all
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non-profit organizations, and thus all of society.</p>
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<p>Donors of $500 or more will be acknowledged in the THANKS file and other
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appropriate places in the codebase itself.</p>
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<p><a href="http://sfconservancy.org/campaign#endorsements">Endorsers of this effort</a> include Fractured Atlas, Free Software
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Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, GNOME Foundation, OpenHatch, Open
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Source Initiative, QuestionCopyright.org, and Software in the Public
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Interest; all encourage you to <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/campaign">donate and support it</a>.</p>
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<h3>Background</h3>
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<p>Like many non-profit organizations (NPOs) in the USA, Conservancy's
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financial accounts are audited annually by an independent accounting firm;
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we recently completed our fiscal year 2011 audit. As usual, our auditors
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asked plenty of questions about our accounting software. Conservancy uses
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only Free Software, of course, using a series of straightforward reporting
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scripts that we created to run on top
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of <a href="http://www.ledger-cli.org/">Ledger CLI</a>. (Conservancy's
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current configuration using Ledger CLI
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is <a href="https://gitorious.org/ledger/npo-ledger-cli">publicly
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documented and explained</a>).</p>
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<p>Our auditors were only familiar with proprietary accounting systems, and
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our system seemed foreign to them (since it relies on Ledger CLI's text files, Emacs and
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version control). During their questions
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about our setup, we asked them to hypothetically prescribe a specific
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proprietary software setup as a model for how to manage Conservancy's
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accounts. Our chief auditor started by mentioning a few well-known
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proprietary solutions — but, then he paused and continued — <q>Given
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that Conservancy's a fiscal sponsor with so many temporarily restricted
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accounts, existing systems really wouldn't do that good of a job for
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you</q>.</p>
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<p>Indeed, Conservancy reached out into the broader fiscal sponsorship
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community beyond the <acronym title="Free, Libre and Open Source Software">FLOSS</acronym>
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<acronym title="Non-profit Organization">NPO</acronym> community and discovered that many larger fiscal sponsors — even
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those willing to use proprietary components — have cobbled together
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their own unique systems, idiosyncratically tailored to their specific
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environments. Thus, good, well-designed, and reusable accounting software
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for non-profit fiscal sponsorship is not just missing in the software
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freedom community; it's missing altogether.</p>
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<p>The project that Conservancy proposes to undertake below is a modest step
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forward to begin creating a better solution for everyone, and
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<a href="#quotes">many NPO leaders and academics agree</a> with Conservancy about the
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immediate need for work to begin on this
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effort. <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org">Fractured Atlas</a>, <a href="http://fsf.org">Free Software
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Foundation</a>, The <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/">Mozilla
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Foundation</a>, The <a href="http://www.gnome.org/foundation/">GNOME Foundation</a>, <a
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href="https://openhatch.org/">OpenHatch</a>, <a href="http://opensource.org">Open Source Initiative</a>,
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<a href="http://QuestionCopyright.org">QuestionCopyright.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/">Software in the Public Interest</a> have
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<a id="endorsements" style="text-decoration:none">all endorsed</a> Conservancy's plan herein, and they encourage you to donate and
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support it.</p>
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<p>Conservancy is uniquely qualified to undertake this task. Using only Free
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Software, Conservancy already meets the complex accounting challenges of
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earmarked, directed donations for over thirty different projects. We've
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learned much about this work in our first seven years of
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operation, and we're prepared to apply what we've learned to solve
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this problem not just for ourselves, but for anyone who seeks a
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solution that both respects software freedom and handles non-profit
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accounting for all sorts of NPOs, including fiscal sponsors. General NPO
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accounting is just a “base case” of fiscal sponsorship (i.e.,
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an NPO is just a fiscal sponsor for one and only one specific project),
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and Conservancy therefore believes a solution that handles fiscal sponsors
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will also handle the simpler case as well.</p>
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<h3>The Plan</h3>
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<p>Conservancy proposes to hire a software developer for one year to
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accomplish the first two phases of this project. Conservancy seeks to
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raise $75,000 toward this project to help cover salary and benefits for a
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full-time staffer to work on this project. We ask that you give generously
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via the donation buttons on this page to support our work.</p>
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<h4>Phase 0</h4>
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<p>Some Free Software accounting systems do exist. A previous informal
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survey of these systems that Conservancy conducted in 2007 led us to the
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conclusion that, in general, these systems were heavily geared toward
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for-profit endeavors, and ignored the unique needs of NPOs generally, and
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were completely hopeless for the specific needs of a fiscal sponsoring
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organization. Conservancy's assessment at the time was that these
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challenges could be addressed only with a large rewrite of one of these
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systems. Conservancy chose
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<a href="http://www.ledger-cli.org/">Ledger CLI</a> precisely because
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it provided flexibility and configurability not present in any other Free Software
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double-entry accounting system.</p>
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<p>However, while that previous informal survey informs Conservancy's
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existing hypothesis that Ledger CLI is the right base system here,
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Conservancy will first test that hypothesis. The first phase of this
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project (estimated to last approximately 6-8 full-time weeks) will produce
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a written survey of all known Free Software accounting systems, and
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indicate what challenges exist to adapt such systems for the needs of
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NPOs. The <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a> has
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pledged their help in the evaluation of SQL-Ledger,
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and <a href="http://www.gnome.org/foundation/">the GNOME Foundation</a> has pledged their
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help in the evaluation of <a href="http://www.gnucash.org/">GNUcash</a> (which they
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currently use, respectively).</p>
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<h4>Phase 1</h4>
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<p>Phase 1 of the project will select the preferred codebase from Phase 0,
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and improve that system to create a basic accounting system for
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small-to-medium sized USA NPOs (i.e., Form 990-filers) — including fiscal
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sponsors — with the following features:
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<ul>
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<li>Basic accounts payable/receivable (with invoicing)</li>
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<li>Tracking and reporting of non-profit income types (related business
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income, unrelated business taxable income, donations, etc.)</li>
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<li>Basic backup documentation tracking for expenses and payments</li>
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<li>Basic bank statement reconciliation reporting</li>
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<li>Basic annual audit preparation reporting
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(a <a href="https://github.com/ledger/ledger/tree/next/contrib/non-profit-audit-reports">prototype
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of this portion is already complete</a> and has been relied on for
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real-life audits; but the prototype is just a hack and needs to be
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rewritten)</li>
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<li>Ability to easily handle all these features on a project-by-project
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subset of the accounts, and to easily export and excise that subset from
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the system. (i.e., support for temporarily restricted assets, earmarked for
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fiscal-sponsored projects)</li>
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<li>Multi-currency support and reporting</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>We will consider the first year of this project successful <em>only if all these
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functions can be performed by a bookkeeper who is generally qualified as a
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bookkeeper</em>, but not necessarily familiar with standard Free Software tools
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such as GNU/Linux, Emacs, version control, and command line scripts. This
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requirement is essential: Conservancy's existing system using Ledger CLI
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already provides sufficient functionality to manage non-profit accounting,
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but our system requires a bookkeeper who is also adept with the
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aforementioned tools already.</p>
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<p>Finally, while the first year of work focuses on USA NPO needs,
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Conservancy seeks to lead an international effort, and welcomes
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contributions and input from everyone in the non-profit community from
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around the world. Conservancy has created
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a <a href="http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/npo-accounting">mailing
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list for discussion of this project</a> and encourages interested parties
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from around the world to join the mailing list and contribute to the
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project!</p>
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<h3>Why Conservancy Must Fund This Work</h3>
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<p>As it stands, nearly all Open Source and Free Software NPOs either use
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proprietary software, or fully outsource their bookkeeping and accounting
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to third-parties. Those that don't do so (such as Conservancy and the Free
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Software Foundation) have long complained that existing Free Software in
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this area is inadequate, and have been forced to develop customized,
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one-off solutions in-house to make the systems work.</p>
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<p>It's highly unlikely that the for-profit sector will adapt existing Free
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Software accounting systems to meet the differing needs of NPOs (let alone
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the more complex needs of fiscal sponsors; based on
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advice from our auditors and other fiscal sponsors, Conservancy understands that <em>no existing
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solution — proprietary or Free — meets the requirements of fiscal sponsorship accounting</em>). Fiscal sponsors like
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Conservancy must track a separate set of books for every project, keeping
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in mind that a project may leave at any time to another NPO and need to take
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their books with them. Yet, the books of the entire organization are the
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aggregate of the books of all these projects, and internally, they need to
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be presented as a single set of books for those purposes.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, even if an organization is not a fiscal sponsor, non-profit
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accounting is <em>just different</em> than for-profit accounting, particularly in
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the USA. For example, for-profit-oriented systems often make problematic
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assumptions about the workflow of accounting tasks (often because NPOs
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rely primarily on donations, rather than fee-for-service or widget-selling
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income). Also, non-profit income is categorized differently than
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for-profit income, and the reporting requirements vary wildly from their
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for-profit equivalents.</p>
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<p>Conservancy's existing system is working adequately, but requires daily
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the relatively more expensive time of a highly technical person to do the
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job of bookkeeping. Also, the system cannot easily be adapted in its
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current form for another NPO, unless they also have the staff time of a
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skilled technical person to act as bookkeeper. This project aims to build
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on what Conservancy has learned and produce a non-profit accounting system
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that corrects these flaws.</p>
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<p>Finally, Conservancy's mission (as stated
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on <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/docs/conservancy_Form-1023.pdf">our Form
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1023 with the USA IRS</a>) includes producing Open Source and Free Software.
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Thus, this project is a great way to meet Conservancy's mission and address a
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specific need that so many NPOs (including us) have. If no one steps up to create Free Software to replace the widely used
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proprietary software, NPOs in aggregate will pay <em>much more</em> money for
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proprietary licensing than Conservancy will ever spend in developing a
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replacement. Please donate
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generously to help us do it!</p>
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<h3><a id="quotes" style="text-decoration:none">Statements of Support</a> For This Project from Others</h3>
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<p><q>As a national fiscal sponsor with over 3,000 arts and cultural projects
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under our umbrella, Fractured Atlas is ecstatic about this effort's
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potential. After 15 years wrestling with Quickbooks and other inadequate
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options, the idea of an open source tool designed specifically for this niche
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of the field is beyond welcome. We wholeheartedly support the Conservancy's
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work on this front and look forward to seeing where it leads.</q> —
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<a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/bios/staff/1/Adam%20Forest_Huttler">Adam
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Huttler</a>, Executive Director, <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org">Fractured Atlas</a></p>
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<p><q><a href="http://QuestionCopyright.org">QuestionCopyright.org</a> is
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just one of many organizations that would benefit from a Free Software
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accounting system that is useable by non-technical people. We
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enthusiastically support the Conservancy's campaign to create one, and look
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forward to using the result.</q>
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— <a href="http://questioncopyright.org/speakers/karl_fogel">Karl
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Fogel</a>, Executive Director,
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<a href="http://QuestionCopyright.org">QuestionCopyright.org</a></p>
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<p><q>As a fiscal sponsor organization with over 30 currently-associated Free
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Software projects, Software in the Public Interest shares the Conservancy's
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needs and interests in this area, and welcome the opportunity to collaborate
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on the development of a Free Software solution to our accounting needs.</q>
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— Bdale Garbee, President, <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/">Software
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in the Public Interest</a></p>
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<p><q>Open Source accounting software specifically tailored for non-profits
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will fill a pretty large need.</q>
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— <a href="http://wagner.nyu.edu/calabrese">Thad Calabrese</a>,
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Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Financial Management
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at <a href="http://wagner.nyu.edu/">NYU Wagner</a>, and co-author
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of <cite>Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit
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Organizations, 4th Edition</cite>.</p>
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<p><q>Creating free software specifically designed to address the needs of
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nonprofits is a laudable goal and one that Conservancy is extremely well
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positioned to achieve.</q> — <a href="http://gnomg.org">Karen
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Sandler</a>, Executive
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Director, The <a href="http://www.gnome.org/foundation/">GNOME Foundation</a></p>
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<p><q>The Open Source Initiative has shared the experiences of Software
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Freedom Conservancy in navigating the financial management needs of
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non-profit organisations and shares their concern. We have many NPOs as
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members and we welcome this useful initiative by Conservancy.</q>
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— Simon Phipps, <a href="http://opensource.org">Open Source
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Initiative</a></p>
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<p><q>The <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a> is committed to doing all of its work,
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both public-facing and internal, using only free software. We are thankful to
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the developers of SQL Ledger for providing the accounting software that has
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served us well for many years. As we have grown, so have the complexities of
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our finances. Because of our own needs and our mission to help other
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organizations — both inside and outside of the technology sphere
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— run their operations on exclusively free software, we wholeheartedly
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support this Conservancy initiative.</q> — <a href="view-source:http://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board#johns">John Sullivan</a>, Executive
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Director, <a href="https://fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a></p>
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<p><q>Open source is a great way to solve new problems and make software that
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is more flexible and responsive to the needs of the people who use it. That's
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as true for the finance industry as it is on the web.</q>
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— <a href="http://blog.mozilla.org/press/bios/mark-surman/">Mark
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Surman</a>, Executive
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Director, <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/">Mozilla
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Foundation</a></p>
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<p><q>As a young free software non-profit, OpenHatch is thrilled to see this
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effort; it would let us spend more of our time on programs and less on
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paperwork. I have already personally donated.</q> — Asheesh Laroia,
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Executive Director, <a href="https://openhatch.org/">OpenHatch</a>.</p>
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<h3>Some Important Details for this Fundraiser</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Donations made are general donations to the Software Freedom
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Conservancy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charity incorporated in New York.
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Conservancy is committed to doing this work described herein, but cannot
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promise to complete the work if the fundraising goal is not reached. If
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the fundraising goal is not reached, Conservancy will do its best to make
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progress on the plan above with the resources available. It's expected
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that work will simply proceed, but more slowly and take more time, if the
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fundraising goal is not reached.</li>
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<li>The license for the project is not yet chosen, since Phase 0 might
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prescribe contribution to particular upstream projects, and Conservancy is
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committed to contributing to upstream projects under their chosen license,
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where possible. However, Conservancy promises that all software that is
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written will be released under a license that is both approved by
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the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses">FSF as a Free
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Software license</a> <strong>and</strong> by the OSI as
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an <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses">OSI-approved license</a>. New
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documentation that is written will be released under some license
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compatible with <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">CC BY-SA 3.0 USA</a>.</li>
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