Hello everyone, 2011/6/9 Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org>
> Hi, > > Andy Brown wrote on 2011-06-09 01.42: > > It would be interesting to find out if all funds received for OOo were >> accounted for since the fork. The e.V changed names and collects >> donations for LibreOffice, >> http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ . >> > > as a German approved, charitable/non-profit organization, we are bound to > the subject of use for donations we receive. That means, if someone > explicitly donates for OpenOffice.org or for LibreOffice, money will be used > exclusively for this purpose. You could, e.g., also donate to a specific > project we set-up (like developing XYZ component), then the donation would > have to be used exclusively for that. > > The change of our name reflects we are supporting not only OOo or LibO, but > all free office suites. > So to summarize: - TeamOOo e.V: Association of the Hamburg engineers (primarily) --- > OOo - FroDe.V, formerly OOoDe.V: users/community association in Germany channelling funds under two separate accounts for LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and also acting as the intermediary legal entity on behalf of TDF. I hope everything's a bit clearer. Best, Charles. > > Florian > > -- > Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> > Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation > Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 > Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
