OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign (opens in new tab)

(openbsdfoundation.org)

55 pointsdivbit8y ago23 comments

23 comments

Note that these pages are not served via https, and neither is the donations page[1] which contains links to Paypal.

This has been pointed out from time to time on the openbsd "misc" email list but I've never seen a good explanation for why these pages are not secure.

[1] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

hessnovTHR448y ago

I am not related to the OpenBSD team, but just dropped a mail for them and in a few hours I can reach it via HTTPS:

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

awesome people :)

protomyth8y ago

The PayPal links are https

dullgiulio8y ago

Doesn't matter. Nothing can be trusted on a plain HTTP page.

It's quite inexcusable today that setting up a certificate is such an inexpensive and easy thing with Let's Encrypt.

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chrisvalleybay8y ago

Remember that OpenBSD also represents OpenSSH, which so many of us use every day.

dheelus8y ago

Well, I want to donate but I don't want to use PayPal. And US banks charge an arm and a leg for wire transfers. Is there a way I can simply mail them a check?

jwilk8y ago

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html reads:

Donations may be made by cheque in CAD/EUR/USD funds to:

The OpenBSD Foundation

8101 160 Street

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

T5R 2G9

sigjuice8y ago

Why should I mail money to an address written on an http site?

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keithpeter8y ago

[jwilk got there first] I just used PayPal for a small one-off donation.

insaneirish8y ago

Their continued unwillingness to create a US 501(c)(3) entity to receive donations from US donors means that they will continue to lose out on a significant number of potential donations.

thisrod8y ago

I get the impression that OpenBSD has a prejudice against becoming officially involved with the United States, formed in the days when t-shirts were export-restricted munitions.

forapurpose8y ago

I've never heard about that. What's the story? How do you know about it?

aomix8y ago

I appreciate OpenBSD. Among other things their focus on making APIs that are impossible to misuse and hacking down the scope of a problem to the bone result in a lot of interesting products. Basically if you have to consult anything beyond the man page for their stuff they've failed. Given those restrictions they tackle big problems with good results.

dijit8y ago

I put a recurring $50 donation when the freeBSD controversy came and went.

I hope its useful, not sure what they use the money for.

poolpOrg8y ago

It is useful, it helps fund the infrastructure, it helps fund hackathons, it helps hosting hackers during the events, it helps bringing developers who would not make it because they wouldn't afford the transportation, it helps getting hardware needed to write new drivers, etc, etc, etc...

As far as I'm concerned, a single week of hackathon achieves far more than months of individual work on the side, and the hackathons take place because the foundation can bring many developers together in the same place at the same time thanks to the donations it receives :-)

divbitOP8y ago

Note from the about page: "We are not a registered charity, in the sense that we do not issue tax deductible receipts. " Seems still worthwhile to raise awareness.

divbitOP8y ago

" and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, LibreSSL, and mandoc. "

jwilk8y ago

It's "OpenBSD", not "Open BSD". Please use the original title:

The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

dang8y ago

Action taken. No spaces in the wrong places in these parts.

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23 comments

ams61108y ago

Note that these pages are not served via https, and neither is the donations page[1] which contains links to Paypal.

This has been pointed out from time to time on the openbsd "misc" email list but I've never seen a good explanation for why these pages are not secure.

[1] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

hessnovTHR448y ago

I am not related to the OpenBSD team, but just dropped a mail for them and in a few hours I can reach it via HTTPS:

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

awesome people :)

protomyth8y ago

The PayPal links are https

dullgiulio8y ago

Doesn't matter. Nothing can be trusted on a plain HTTP page.

It's quite inexcusable today that setting up a certificate is such an inexpensive and easy thing with Let's Encrypt.

3 more replies

chrisvalleybay8y ago

Remember that OpenBSD also represents OpenSSH, which so many of us use every day.

dheelus8y ago

Well, I want to donate but I don't want to use PayPal. And US banks charge an arm and a leg for wire transfers. Is there a way I can simply mail them a check?

jwilk8y ago

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html reads:

Donations may be made by cheque in CAD/EUR/USD funds to:

The OpenBSD Foundation

8101 160 Street

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

T5R 2G9

sigjuice8y ago

Why should I mail money to an address written on an http site?

3 more replies

keithpeter8y ago

[jwilk got there first] I just used PayPal for a small one-off donation.

insaneirish8y ago

Their continued unwillingness to create a US 501(c)(3) entity to receive donations from US donors means that they will continue to lose out on a significant number of potential donations.

thisrod8y ago

I get the impression that OpenBSD has a prejudice against becoming officially involved with the United States, formed in the days when t-shirts were export-restricted munitions.

forapurpose8y ago

I've never heard about that. What's the story? How do you know about it?

aomix8y ago

dijit8y ago

I put a recurring $50 donation when the freeBSD controversy came and went.

I hope its useful, not sure what they use the money for.

poolpOrg8y ago

divbitOP8y ago

Note from the about page: "We are not a registered charity, in the sense that we do not issue tax deductible receipts. " Seems still worthwhile to raise awareness.

divbitOP8y ago

" and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, LibreSSL, and mandoc. "

jwilk8y ago

It's "OpenBSD", not "Open BSD". Please use the original title:

The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

dang8y ago

Action taken. No spaces in the wrong places in these parts.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse