<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 18.02.2010, at 01:14, Raymond Asselin wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div>This message to let you know that there is, actually, no way to help gathering money for Squeak.</div><div>Hi tried recently to buy a Squeak badge to help the community but links , link to ESUG. So I used Paypal</div><div>to buy the badge. Few days later I received a mail from Paypal with this remark from ESUG:</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">"</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Dear Raymond, ESUG does not handle donations to Squeak Foundation any more. Regards, Noury"</span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Just to let everybody know this situation, hoping that there will be a 'correctif' sometimes.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ray</font></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>We discussed this in today's Board meeting and are sending a message to ESUG asking for clarification. We are very happy ESUG handled donations for Squeak in the past, and would like them to continue until we are set up to receive them ourselves (which is one big motivation of joining the SFC).</div><br><div>
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