Hi Drew, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-03-14 17.27:
Since it appears that what is going on there, with OO.o D. e.v., is working, and is circumscribed in it's ability to function outside of Germany, my question is how should that be replicated in other areas? Also - from your questions regarding funds from OO.o I am left clueless now as to the relationships here. I was under the belief that OO.o D. e.v. held the purse strings for all of OO.o - that however appears to be a wrong belief on my part.
there are two nonprofits in Germany: Team OpenOffice.org e.V., taking care of the project's budget, and OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. The latter one is where I'm in the board of directors, other directors are Thomas Krumbein (my MarCon colleague from Germany) and Jacqueline Rahemipour (Germanophone Co-Lead). In contrast to TeamOOo, OOoDeV has also been officially approved as nonprofit, which gives it some tax benefit, but on the other hand limits its activities to inside Germany and also sets some restrictions on how money can be spent.
Hope that helps a bit. ;-) Florian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
