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Post edited 6:58 am – February 10, 2010 by brmj

For anyone not familiar with SpaceUp, take a look at this thread.

I'm now accepting donations to try and put together enough money to get me to SpaceUp. This money will go towards the cost of plane tickets, lodging, transportation and promotional materials. Every effort will be made to keep costs down, and any donated money that doesn't get used for this, for any reason, will be donated to CSTART's main account. The listed amount is an estimate only; actual costs will probably be lower, though almost certainly not under $300.

I have created a ChipIn to collect this money. If anyone can't use this and would like to donate, bring it to my attention and I will figure out an alternative that doesn't use flash/block India/$COMPLAINT, most likely a standard paypal donate button.

Post edited 3:01 pm – January 27, 2010 by brmj

The widget on the front page for the 501(c)(3) has $65. This has $0, though in practice it will also have a substantial contribution from me. I am not sure quite how large as of yet. Unfortunately, one can not donate to one's own chipin.

That's strange. It's still registering at $0 total as far as I can tell. Is that what everyone else sees?

Post edited 11:43 pm – February 1, 2010 by Rocket-To-The-Moon

brmj, have you checked your @rit.edu email? There should be a PayPal notice in your inbox.

I've been wrestling with paypal for what feels like hours now. I managed to add one of my other email addresses and confirm that one, but it still steadfastly refuses to confirm the RIT account. If I can't get that figured out, I won't ever be able to receive Rocket's attempt at a donation. In that case, we'll have to figure out a way to cancel the payment and have him resend it with the other email account targeted. I think I managed to switch the chipin to the other account, but I plan on creating a new one, both as a precaution and because the existing one doesn't reflect my new matching donation scheme. Expect the reddit posts before much longer.

Paypal has gotten the transactions, but isn't releasing the funds yet. I can't seem to get it to confirm the rit email address for some reason, but I have added my gmail and that is now working. I googled this problem, and some other people have this problem too, but I couldn't find a way to fix it so far. I don't think you have been charged yet, since I haven't gotten your money in my account yet. If I can't get it to send me the account confirmation email, our best bet might be to cancel this transaction and have you resend it using the new email account associated with my paypal. How do you want to proceed?

Good news: I just got off the phone with paypal support. They were able to resolve that issue. Now I've just got to wait at most a day or to for their verification of my bank account to go through, and I will be able to get at the money from your donation and everyone else's.