donation to Proxmox. How to. Apologies if this create noise.

[Julian33]

Hi,

I use Proxmox for my home lab. Great piece of software. Lots of learning I am doing. Recommended in Linkedin and at company. Want to contribute financially. I am unskilled to do it otherwise. My home use does not justify a subscription.

I went through the forum and I saw there is already some "hot" controversy around this. Not my intention to create distraction on important things.

I saw banking details are published and I thought on just wiring some money (SEPA). I do not do PayPal fraudsters.

However, I am weary though that receiving money this way may create a headache to accounting. Money and invoices need to match. Accountants and tax authorities like numbers match.

I want to do good. Not expecting any services whatsoever. Can I wire money to the account in the website?? or money will be returned and your accountants will question my mother actually doesn't know who my father was ?

Thanks.

JC

 

[leesteken]

Maybe contact the Proxmox (sales) office direct about this (and lets us know)? The volunteers and random strangers here cannot really determine whether donating by bank transfer would cause a problem for Proxmox. I do donate like that for other open-source companies and I have suggested exactly this in the past for Proxmox users (who found the subscription too expensive or rigid) but people always replied with reasons to not spend any money at all.

 

[bbgeek17]

Here are the 3 major underlying projects that accept your donations:
https://www.qemu.org/donations/
https://www.debian.org/donations
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-donations-funding/29

The mothership: https://my.fsf.org/donate/

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[Julian33]

Got an answer from sales @leesteken

Don't do it thanks. "Unfortunately we cannot accept donations as such."

For future reference. Best advice by @bbgeek17

Cheers.

JC

 

[leesteken]

"Unfortunately we cannot accept donations as such."

And they already said they don't want to start a Donation button on the website again (because nobody used it in the past). So I assume Proxmox either wants a yearly donation of a fixed price or none at all.
You can either save up before doing a subscription for a year and cancel it again or support Proxmox in other ways like donating to upstream projects (thanks @bbgeek17 !).
Or just be satisfied that you actually tried, which I feel is more than most people talking about donations did in the past. Seriously, thanks!
Don't worry too much. Proxmox decided on their business model (companies paying for support instead of home user donations) and we should trust that they know best for themselves.