Per Jessen - 20:00 9.02.16 wrote:
jdd wrote:
Le 09/02/2016 18:16, Henne Vogelsang a écrit :
And back then when the idea of the foundation was floating around we came to the conclusion that we don't really need those types of donations. I don't see a reason why this has changed now...
it's a curious but constant feature of human nature than one is more linked to groups they have donated money than to the one they receive money from.
the goal is to give people something where they can aggregate, because it's they own.
Finding a bank account is very easy, many groups simply use an account opened by the treasurer, or any trusted people.
With a registered legal entity, opening a bank account only takes a phone call. But I'm sure Henne wasn't really asking about which account, it's just that it isn't quite as easy as Knurpht suggested: "an easy access donation page could do that.".
Well, yes, getting a bank account for legal entity is quite easy and getting legal entity is not that entirely hard either, just some work and small donations is something that such a foundation could do and SUSE can't. But more important question I think is what would we to do with such a money, who would be in control of it and why not just ask SUSE to pay for whatever we want :-) The only use-case I can imagine it could make sense is something like funding a hackerspace, but that would need to be local initiative (and entity) anyway and probably makes more sense to join other similar initiatives... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org