Hi,
Honestly, that's look very interesting, and we will need to discuss status,
help or not from other organization, bank account, but can we keep on the
subject please ? ;p
Actually, we were discussing the name ;)
Is everyone agree with "Create Foundation" ("create" seems good, and it look
likes we want to have "an organization managing founds with a moral goal") ?
Thanks for you enthusiasm ;)
-- yagraph
2010/5/31 Dave Neary <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> a.l.e wrote:
> > Dave Neary wrote:
> >> Smiley indicates humour or irony... but I'll answer this straight :)
> >
> > in my case, i tried to express through a smiley the fact that the
> > question was meant in a positive, friendly way and not in a provocative
> > way. i guess the one of yours was a more ironic one.
>
> Not intended to be ironic, but friendly (as in, don't take this the
> wrong way).
>
> > does anybody care?
>
> No, probably not.
>
> >> Cleared things up? :)
> >
> > somehow.
> >
> > i still don't know what the SFLC is, but i guess it's a US american
> > company which would do a similar work for, us as the gnome foundation is
> > currently doing for the LGM.
>
> SFLC = Software Freedom Law Center, a non-profit, funded by donations
> from various corporate sponsors, to provide free legal services to free
> software projects. Founded by Eben Moglen, they currently have 3 lawyers
> working for them (Karen Sandler, Aaron Williamson and another I don't
> recall right now) and Bradley Kuhn, formerly of the FSF, who also works
> for them but isn't a lawyer. Brandley also donates some of his time on
> another SFLC project, the Software Freedome Conservancy, which provides
> fiscal agency, financial and administrative services to (you guessed it)
> free software projects. Including, as Jon said, Inkscape.
>
> > what i'm still missing are the advantages against just creating a very
> > simple association and using an external organization (like the gnome
> > foundation) to manage our funds.
>
> "Create a simple association" implies a certain number of things in my
> mind: By-laws & statutes, a membership structure, a governing
> jurisdiction, a board of directors, tax returns, elections... basically,
> a formal structure, registered with some government somewhere, governed
> by the rules of that government (and if you want to give tax deductible
> relief to sponsors, or you want to not pay taxes on donations yourself,
> you have a lot of paperwork to do to justify your organisation).
>
> By putting yourself under an existing umbrella organisation, you avoid
> that - informal elections or nominations of the people who will deal
> with the umbrella folks would be useful, but you don't need to have
> legally water-tight statutes & by-laws, AGMs, treasurer reports
> submitted to the IRS every year, etc. You're getting all the benefits
> and none of the down-side.
>
> Plus, in general, the only reason to create an association for a free
> software project is a bank account, some kind of co-ordinated
> marketing/branding campaign, and elected representatives. You don't need
> an association to do the 2nd & 3rd.
>
> > or would the SFLC be the full politically correct partner boudwijn was
> > suggesting we shold look for?
>
> The Software Freedom Conservancy probably would be (the SFLC is slightly
> different, but very much related).
>
> > p.s.: after trying several times to understand what "To-may-to
> > to-mah-to?" actually means, i finally got it. now: can we keep a
> > language level which is a bit more friendly to non native speakers? (if
> > requested, i may even personally switch to sentences with correct caps).
>
> The song about pronunciations of tomato and potato is very well known
> internationally, and I didn't think that using the phonetics of it might
> cause problems. I am sorry.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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