Yearly membership

By becoming a member, you will be able to participate to the annual Assembly of Members for revising the association financial balance, you may participate to internal planning discussions, and may vote when there is an important decision.

The yearly membership fee will be used to pay:

  • web hosting of our websites – which is around 350€ a year
    • https://www.powerprogress.org/ and the others third levels domains
    • https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/ and the others third level domains
  • plugin for managing the donation campaign that interfaces with PayPal and Stripe that cost around 125€ a year
  • bank and tax bank costs which is around 160€ a year
Variable costs related to our involvement
  • association activities such as the switch from closed source software to open source and preferably self-hosted and alternative softwares such as nextcloud, collabora, irc, jitsi, BigBlueButton;
  • regenerate old hardware, and support the knowledge and passion transfer for alternative architectures to the younger generations, as well as teaching them how to become accustomed with Linux and programming (example Revivo with Scratch School project ).
Based on what is left, the remaining funds will be used for supporting activities such as:
  • buying pieces of hardware or software useful for our projects like the PowerPC laptop
  • finance ppc64 big endian patches, u-boot configuration,other software needs
  • finance other open hardware designs
  • finance open hardware notebook chassis design
  • participating to conferences
  • printing posters, leaflets, T-Shirts
  • support and collaborate with other associations

All people involved works on a voluntary basis and is not getting paid.
If you like our activities, you may also consider donating using this page.

INSTRUCTIONS

The application form must be filled, printed, signed, scanned, then sent to membership at powerprogress.org Together with the scanned application form, please, provide the receipt of the € 30 (€ 10 for students or people from developing countries) credit transfer.

Payment via Bank Transfert

Beneficiary Bank (57)
IBAN
IT94X0501801600000012339610
Code BIC/ SWIFTETICIT22XXX
Banca popolare Etica SCPA Via N. Tommaseo 7, 35131 Padova (PD)
Intermediary Bank (56A)
Code BIC/ SWIFT
POSOIT22XXX
BIC SWIFTCCRTIT2T84A
Banca popolare di SondrioPiazza Garibaldi 16, 23100 Sondrio (SO)
Purpuse membership + YEAR + your NAME and SURNAME
(e.g..: “membership 2018 John Cocke”)

Payment via Stripe you can you use this link

Payment via PayPal

You may send the donation using PayPal to

Thank you!
In this case, please add a comment providing your Name and Surname, otherwise we may unable to trace back who is the donor.

Request with the form below:

The current yearly membership fee due is € 30.
A discounted membership fee of € 10 is available for students or for people coming from the so called “developing countries”. The list of countries falling into this group is the one as defined by the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme).
The present request does not imply any commitment nor obligation for the next year.

OR Download the membership application form below as   PDF   ODT   DOCX and send it to the email written in the document or