Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (292 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 03 mai 2011, à 12:04 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Now, it's not too late to change the plan. If you have a better
> suggestion, please tell us. There's no need to argue forever about it,
> just explain why you think it's good. Keep in mind that if we cannot
> receive the money ourselves, this also means that we cannot use it to
> buy stuff for openSUSE.

Thanks for all the contributions to this discussion. There are a few
things that were probably badly explained in my original mail but clear
in my mind, and they might be useful for everyone who has suggestions:

The main issue is "to which bank account should the money be sent?".
There are several options:

  - a not-for-profit organization related to openSUSE. Then, the money
    can be used for hardware like suggested in this thread, or for other
    activities.

  - a not-for-profit organization not related to openSUSE. In this
    case, this would be a donation on behalf of the openSUSE project. I
    don't think we can reasonably ask most organizations to keep the
    money for us, especially as it might be a difficult task to handle
    from an accounting perspective.
    (Except for a few orgs who do that kind of job, like SPI or SFC, but
    that requires some paperwork and I'm not sure we want to do that and
    then create two months later a Foundation)

  - a for-profit organization (most likely a company). If a company
    promises to use the money the way we want, for instance. It's worth
    pointing out that we will have no guarantee that the money will be
    used the way we want, and I'm unsure how well this works with
    Google, but we can check.

  - an individual. There are tax concerns for the person, and it puts
    some risk/pressure on her/him. I'd prefer to avoid that if possible.

I hope that helps clarify the background of the discussion.

Cheers,

Vincent

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