Intangible donations

There are different ways to support and help us. We appreciate donations of money (and alternatively assets exchangeable for money). The expenses of the collective are paid with our personal money (except some isolated conference with public sponsorship) and this limits our activities and projects. For example, it is difficult for us to buy hardware whose price is high, to provide us with reserves of hardware that has stopped being manufactured, to pay for the manufacture of circuits or hardware, or to invite speakers who live far away. Attending to those who contact or consult us, and preparing and carrying out our activities and projects, is done exclusively in our scarce personal free time. Hopefully one day (donations would have to increase a lot) we can hire someone to fully dedicate time to taking the work of Pica Pica HackLab (PicaHack) to another level.

Donation methods that we accept, in order of our preference (although the choice is ultimately up to the donor and we will not question their choice):

1. Donate cash in person. It can be in hand or deposited anonymously in the money box in a corner of our face-to-face activities.
2. Donate cash remotely. You can put the money in a letter (bills are better than coins) or use a money order. Contact us via e-mail or web form to communicate the personal data of the recipient.
3. Donate money by check. It can be done in person or remotely (by putting the check in a letter). It is recommended to use a nominative check indicating the beneficiary and the clause "not to order" (not transferable or endorsable). Contact us via e-mail or web form to communicate the personal data of the recipient.
4. Donate Ğ1 (more information here, here and here): 9dUsRmJSdFV47BPzA77ZzAyQ1oHb7rdDagFVEKSzLiuF:6Ci
5. Donate Bitcoin (BTC=XBT): bc1q7tdlnn6arvzkzgjdu9m4afd6qzw7skeve2rykz
6. Donate money by bank transfer. Contact us via e-mail or web form to communicate the personal data of the recipient.

Notes:

1. Donating cash in person is the preferred option, because it ensures the donation without the possibility of loss and does not require revealing personal data such as address. Obviously it is limited to people who live near where we do face-to-face activities.
2. Donating cash remotely and donating money via check remotely are both preferable options for people who don't live near where we do face-to-face activities.
3. Donating money via check in person often doesn't make sense compared to donating cash in person.
4. Cryptoassets like Bitcoin involve several issues, both eco-social (such as high energy use) and practical (such as high volatility of exchange rate with the currencies that shops accept). Among the many similar cryptoassets that exist, we limit the donations that we accept to the noticeably most widespread and supported one, Bitcoin.
5. Donating money via bank transfer is the least preferable option as long as the current situation remains, with all available banks (banking and financial entities) noticeably and unjustifiably restricting the operational possibilities for people who defend their rights to use libre (free as freedom) software and not use mobile phone. As long as this situation remains, it is necessary to avoid the use of banks (banking and financial entities) and promote the use of the aforementioned alternatives.

Donation methods that we cannot accept:

1. Debit or credit card. This would involve contracting a banking service on our part.
2. Transfer services that require the use of privative software.
3. Coupons and shopping vouchers (including so-called "gift vouchers" and "gift cards") that are only valid for shops where we don't buy.

General notes:

1. To protect the personal data of our donors, in case of doubt, we only publish the names of donors who explicitly indicate it and only those data explicitly indicated (for example, it is possible to publish the donation using an alias or pseudonym) except for unethical or illegal requests (such as publishing the donation in the name of a famous person who is not the one who has donated).
2. Donations are not tax deductible. We don't want to spend our scarce time on the necessary administrative procedures.