<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 10:32 -0600, Paul Davis wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 8:40 AM Thomas Mulot <<a href="mailto:thomas@zankapfel.org">thomas@zankapfel.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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While you're at it: Have you taken a look at liberapay? They are a french <br>
nonprofit that seems made for free software projects. For me, they have the <br>
great advantage that they are able to simply charge a european bank account <br>
via direct debit - no need for a paypal account or a credit card.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">As has been mentioned when this comes up on the forums, this would require a significant formalization of financial structure, because as a US resident (and citizen) it is extremely complex for me to have a bank account in an EU country. Therefore using liberapay or any other similar system that uses the EU interbank transfer system would require designating someone else as the account holder. This is far from out of the question, but would represent a big change in how things work.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"></div></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>while as a dual citizen i understand that getting an EU bank account as a US citizen can be difficult, these days there are some multi-currency account options like this one from Wise <a href="https://wise.com/us/multi-currency-account/">https://wise.com/us/multi-currency-account/</a> . one account gives US citizens an EU bank account with all the SWIFT/IBAN/BIC/etc. codes necessary to do business in EU, as well as in other jurisdictions <a href="https://wise.com/us/multi-currency-account/#coverage-bankdetails">https://wise.com/us/multi-currency-account/#coverage-bankdetails</a> . and the funds are easily transferable to a US bank account as an exchange, which also beats most other options. of course i know that for Ardour it is more difficult, so please take this as just an FYI from someone who has dealt with these cross border payment issues.</div><div><br></div><div>another obvious option is cryptocurrency though that has its own complexities ;)</div><div><br></div><div>peace, w</div><div><br></div></body></html>