[software] Call for evaluation of Donor.com

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

 Jim Brandt wrote:


> There's no denying the ideological issue, but for me I have a
> pragmatic problem of having to chose between managing the day-to-day
> donor issues or doing other stuff for TPF. Given how much needs to be
> done, my decision is to get something and focus on the other stuff,
> but that's just me.

Yes, and I think this is a totally reasonable approach for TPF.  I've
been doing exactly the opposite in Conservancy: I'm doing much donation
processing and accounting by hand/on paper (not the math, of course, but
the record-keeping) precisely to force myself to not give into a "good
enough" non-FLOSS solution and thus keep me from "scratching the itch"
(as Larry Wall himself would say).

My goal is to get a FLOSS package working from ground-up for accounting.
If you all succeed in getting donor.com released, that's great.  My
colleague Karen has offered to help you convince them.  In the meantime,
I hope we can make progress in parallel on other directions.
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   -- bkuhn