On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:20 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@obsidian-studios.com> wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:15:03 -0500 > Cedric Bail <ced...@ddlm.me> wrote: > >> On March 4, 2018 9:27 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. >> <wlt...@obsidian-studios.com> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:33:17 +0100 >> > Vincent Torri vincent.to...@gmail.com wrote: >> > > Hello >> > > >> > > The « Enlighenment.fr » association aims to help all the actions >> > > which are involved in the development and diffusion of « >> > > Enlightenment » and the software libraries « EFL », as well as >> > > all the FOSS using or linked in a way or another with these two >> > > components. >> > >> > Nice first step. What is that association a non profit? >> >> Yes, there is no for profit association as far as I know in France :-) > > I assume you mean regarding E/Enlightenment, not in general.
more precisely (see the french "1901 law" which specifies all the legal stuff , and it is for all associations), it is not possible to share profits out among a set of people (like the creators of the association) >> I don't think we are talking about the same size of organization >> here :-) Our current cost is a few thousands dollars per decade as >> our main cost has been renewing our server when they get to old. > > Why I provided information on Gnome as well. Just the same without a > plan to grow you likely will not. Without showing how donations can > help further the project. There is little reason to donate. The more > people can see their donations at work, the more they will donate. > >> With european banks, you can allow direct money transfer easily with >> SEPA. In the USA, this is not possible. > > There are numerous ways to send money for free with direct money > transfer. PayPal is one, Paypal is not for free, we receive a percentage of what is donated > Google Wallet, and most banks have their own > these days. Though that is limited to within the US. Like SEPA is > limited to EU banks. > >> As the main use case are : keeping > a stash of money that doesn't >> disappear completely over time, > > Which is why IMHO you want a actual bank. Not digital currency, that > could be hacked, login lost, etc and no recovery. No customer service, > fraud protection etc. in France, for associations, a bank account is never free of charge. In that regard, paypal is better than a bank account Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
