On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 19:27 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
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Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-04-11 at 13:29 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
The primary driver behind this is obviously to be able to collect funds/donations for openSUSE directly, in order to sponsor activities, programs, travels, infrastructure, ... It's still a long way though :)
You may need to register in many countries, if donators want to fill for tax refunds or whatever they are called in their repective countries. Is there anything global for the EU at least?
There isn't. Or at least, not that I know of. There is barely any synchronisation between EU countries on tax level as of now.
Tax refunds/exemption isn't the highest priority on my list though. If having the necessary status (e.g. in Germany) to have a non-for-profit with tax exemption comes with too many strings attached, I'd rather go for less hassle. It's part of the analysis we have to conduct though.
cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser
Just remember folks, we're definitely mindful of setting this up in a geographical location that benefits the most donors. But that's a moving target with no available statistical information about where the most likely openSUSE donors come from. As an example, here on our mailing list and in IRC, we observe perhaps most come from the EU area. But it was recently discovered in Facebook that there's a group of openSUSE supporters (somewhat quite active) that seems toe be mostly US residents. There's 2,300 members in that group! The other thing to consider is the costs. We're starting from scratch here with no pre-existing budget. (No the Board does not currently have a discretionary budget.) Having something set up in many regions would definitely prove cost-daunting for us. So we need to figure out how to catch the most flies with the least amount of honey. It's a challenge, and one we're definitely wading through because we want to make this happen. But at this point, we don't even know what our potential fundraising would be. We hear from people from time to time saying "I want to donate." But we don't know what this translates to financially. Would we raise only a couple of hundred dollars or thousands? Who knows at this early point. But we intend to find out! :-) -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org