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<h2>samba.org donations</h2>
<h3>How to donate</h3>
-<p>The preferred method of donating is via PayPal. To make a donation click on
-<a href="https://www.paypal.com/affil/pal=KFH2GA69RNRKN">this link</a>. If you
-want your donation to be anonymous then please put the word 'anonymous'
-somewhere in the notes with your donation. We are planning on publishing a list
-of donators on this web site (names and amounts) and
-we will use that keyword to disable publishing of your name.</p>
+<h4>PayPal</h4>
+<p>Donations can be made through PayPal.
+To use PayPal, click on the 'PayPal Donate' button below.</p>
+
+<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
+<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
+<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="JJCAM7BX48Z42">
+<input type="image" src="images/paypal.png" border="0" name="submit" width="200" height="72" alt="Donate via PayPal">
+</form>
+
+<h4>Check</h4>
<p>You can also make donations by check. Please make checks payable to the
'Samba Team' and send them to:</p>
<pre>
Samba Team
- 26 Carstensz st
- Griffith, ACT
- 2603 Australia
+ c/o Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.
+ 137 Montague St Ste 380
+ Brooklyn, NY 11201-3548
</pre>
+<br>
+
+<p>Note that the Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) charity in
+the USA, so donations in the USA may be tax-deductible.</p>
+
<h3>Corporate donations</h3>
<p>If you would like to make a larger corporate donation then we would certainly
like to discuss that. Please send a email to
-<a href="mailto:samba-donations@samba.org">samba-donations@samba.org</a> or talk
-to any Samba Team member.</p>
+<a
+href="mailto:donation@sfconservancy.org">donation@sfconservancy.org</a>
+or talk to any Samba Team member.</p>
<h3>Why do we need money?</h3>
-<p>You may be wondering why the Samba Team needs money now, when we have
-survived for 10 years without asking for donations. The main expenses that we
-have are travel expenses for team members to the major Samba related conferences
-and expenses for running the main samba.org site. We occasionally
-have other expenses (eg. small pieces of hardware and books) but that is less
-common.</p>
-
-<p>A good example of our travel expenses is the <a
-href="http://www.cifs2002.org/">CIFS'2002
-conference</a> in San Jose. We have eleven team members attending this year and
-while most of them are covered by the company they work for, we do need to
-provide international travel and accomodation for 4 people.</p>
-
-<p>Our other major expense is the hosting of the main samba.org server. Up till
-now we have used servers generously provided by various vendors, but we are now
-looking at the possibility of moving to a commercial dedicated hosting provider.
-We are evaluating offers from several providers that have offered us very large
-discounts, but even with that it looks like we will need about US$200 a
-month.</p>
-
-<p>We do already have a good cash reserve from the Linus Torvalds/IDG prize we
-received at the 2001 Linuxworld expo, but that won't last forever and is being
-quickly eroded.</p>
-
-<h3>Recent donations</h3>
-
-<p>Thanks very much to everyone that has donated!</p>
-
-<table border="1">
-<tr bgcolor="#cfcfff"><th>Name</th><th>Amount</th></tr>
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+<p>You may be wondering why the Samba Team needs money. The main
+expenses that we have are travel expenses for team members to the
+major Samba related conferences and expenses for running the main
+samba.org site. We occasionally have other expenses (eg. small pieces
+of hardware and books) but that is less common.</p>
+
+<p>A good example of our travel expenses is the Storage Developer Conference
+(SDC) in Santa Clara. We usually have between ten and fifteen team members
+attending each year and while most of them are covered by the company
+they work for, we do need to provide international travel and
+accomodation for some of them.</p>
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