[bkuhn]

I don't see in there all the accounting configurations you'd need to integrate that with Conservancy's accounting system, nor all the legal research to figure out how it impacts Conservancy's Form 990 filings, nor all the workflow code to make sure transactions are auto-imported, identified with people who want to be identified, so they can be sent their t-shirts.

Too often, people think "it's easy for me to set something up for myself to use, it must be just as easy for a non-profit it do it". It just isn't.

And yes, I'm Bradley Kuhn.

[daveloyall]

I understand that during your interaction with fans of the free software movement, you must receive significantly more "free advice" than free work or donations. I apologize on behalf of my personality type! :)

Naive question: could one of your core members accept bitcoin on behalf of the Conservancy and manually convert the balance into a paper check or wire transfer periodically?

I expect that the very public nature of bitcoin transactions would discourage embezzlement. A little script added to https://gitorious.org/conservancy/website could display the transaction log.

"Sorry, t-shirts and recognition aren't available for bitcoin donations at this time."

shrug That's how I'd do it. </free advice> :)