On 11/17/2015 02:12 AM, mray wrote: > > > On 17.11.2015 02:36, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> >> >> On 11/16/2015 05:30 PM, Bryan Richter wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 07:43:46PM -0500, Stephen Michel wrote: >>>>> >>>> Does this also mean that should we decide to use the >>>> "donation-to-us" mechanism, those donations would be 501(c)(3) >>>> deductible? >>> >>> I don't think this affects that possibility, really. >>> >>> Right now, people can donate tax-deductible money to the OSI earmarked >>> for us, and they will "support us" with that money as part of their >>> own mission. (I'm not sure if that's an informal understanding or a >>> formal arrangement.) >> >> It is a formal arrangement. We are a *formal* incubator project, and >> they'll have some announcement soon and more updated wiki page on their >> site about it all. >> > > It would be great to not appear to be a "product" of OSI or deriving > from it. Having at least one other official tie when we get more > publicity would be great. Maybe an official word from FSF, FSFE, April, > EFF, or any other known entity is good enough. >
Agreed, anyone else here is certainly welcome to join me in working on these things. For reference, we partnered with the Copyfree Initiative already, but that's not really a "known entity" worth highlighting. > Aaron, it is really awesome that you stay in touch with lots of people. > Thanks for keeping up with that part of the project. > Thanks, I'm working hard on this with our CiviCRM setup, and anyone is welcome to help me with that too. I will post a blog article sometime about CiviCRM. >>> >>> To somehow make patron contributions automatically be donations to the >>> OSI, which then turn around and get sent to the projects according to >>> our mechanism, is probably not something under consideration. >>> >>> >> >> The OSI partnership is specificalyl for our incubation / prototype / >> pre-launch phase only. >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Aaron Wolf Snowdrift.coop <https://snowdrift.coop> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/discuss
