Madi wrote: > http://www.pledgebank.com/postgistopology
Hi, I'm not really familar with pledge bank, so I won't comment on it directly but since the issue seems to be coming up a lot lately & I thought I'd previously written about this, but can't seem to find it in the archives :), I'll mention it again. It's a bad idea for any of us to personally open a bank account to accept funds. $YOU can be held liable for income taxes and contract issues arising from those funds. It is much better that OSGeo (as our Umbrella org) or an incorporated chapter like gfoss.it (who have done this for us before) handles it on our behalf. This sort of thing is _exactly_ what we joined the OSGeo Foundation for, since they as the legal entity can accept the money on our behalf in an account especially earmarked to our project. If such infrastructure does not currently exist at OSGeo, the best thing we can do IMHO is work towards making it exist. I suggest everyone read this legal primer for FOSS project managers which was put together by the SFLC, who along with the FSF, is our best/only hope of legal council if things go badly wrong: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html As a general governance thing, please do take the time to print it out and read it :). It explains a lot about the how and why of our Foundation & responsibilities. further light reading of possible interest: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/ There are a number of conference talks by staff lawyers at the software freedom conservancy, the FSF, and the EFF at various FOSS conferences on youtube which are worth checking out too. (See also the dozens of FOSS projects left in limbo by using PayPal to collect funds without filing legal proof of not being a business. It's actually not PayPal's fault [entirely], they are legally obliged to do so) best, Hamish ps- read the primer :) _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
