Dear friends, The Steering Committee would like to provide you an update regarding the status of the establishment of our Foundation.
We have spent quite some time evaluating the legal, fiscal, financial and practical options that were available to us. Assessing these took us considerable efforts and the involvement of lawyers we would like to thank. We finally came to the following decision. We will incorporate a Foundation in Germany (called "Stiftung" in German) in early 2011. A german foundation will provide us with many advantages of various kinds, among them, 100% tax-deductible donations. In order to incorporate there we will however need some initial capital and resources (around fifty thousand (50,000) Euros). If we do not manage to collect this sum in a reasonable amount of time, we will switch to our second best option and incorporate a charity in the United Kingdom, which is much cheaper. We will of course keep you updated. Meanwhile, the donations to the German OOoDEV association are still accepted and much welcome ! The last days of 2010 will be busy with Season's Holidays as well as the release of LibreOffice 3.3 and the LibreOffice website. Until 2011, we wish you all the best for the New Year. On behalf of The Document Foundation Steering Committee, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Steering Committee Member, The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
