Hi,
After reading through the whole thread, I decide to still reply on the
initial mail.
First thank you all for raising this question out and ideas on
alternative methods.
I am from APAC (China, to be clear), a really diverse region. AFAIK
Paypal do have some issue in APAC (luckily most country have a
workaround now). Take China as an example, we need to pay USD $35 to
Paypal per transaction plus extra fee charged by the receiving bank for
withdraw money from Paypal. Costly isn't it? So the workaround is, most
of us in China just leave money in Paypal until we really need. Then
withdraw in one transaction. I know Cambodia used to have problems using
Paypal as well and I remember Sirko Kemter have better ideas on how they
workaround that.
In short, Paypal is not smooth in APAC, currently we have workarounds
per country.
For alternative reimbursement methods, I think Red Hat office is a great
idea if Red Hat HQ can really make this happen. Otherwise there is
problem still, that is not all community have close connection with
local Red Hat office, for example, in Malaysia.
WestUnion should work, at least I know there are agent in China. But I
don't know if it works in other area of APAC or not.
Just my cents. HTH.
On 12/05/2016 11:24 PM, Giannis Konstantinidis wrote:
Dear Fedora Ambassadors,
we all know the Fedora Project has an extremely diverse community. Our
contributors come from different backgrounds.
From time to time, regional communities sponsor contributors to travel
either domestically or abroad to represent the project. The model being
used is reimbursements, i.e. contributors need to pay for their expenses
in advance and then await to receive their money back some time later.
This is done for a variety of reasons. Reimbursements are processed
exclusively via Paypal.
First of all, I understand that not everyone feels comfortable with
paying for their expenses in advance and then awaiting to be reimbursed
a month and a half later. Secondly, Paypal does not work in all
countries - which can be very difficult for some people to receive
payments.
Are you having any issues with Paypal in your country? If yes I would
like to invite you to visit the following wiki page[0], describe the
problem and suggest alternative solutions (If you have any in mind). Are
you having any issues related to reimbursements? I encourage you to
reach out to me and/or any other FAmSCo representative and report any
problem, even anonymously.
We appreciate your input. Thanks very much.
-Giannis
PS: As I recall, this topic has been discussed several times in the
past. No specific action was taken, however.
[0]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements/Issues
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