On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Omer Zak wrote:
> My opinion:
> By all means, go the (1) approach. Let's decide to donate any leftover
> money 50% to FSF and 50% to the Debian project. (I dislike the idea of
> donating everything to a single NPO.)
<sarcasm>I suggest that we donate 50% to FSF and 50% to
MandrakeSoft</sarcasm>. I think we should pick a distribution-neutral
body. Organizations off the top of my head:
1. The EFF.
2. KDE e.V. (I think the GNOME people have enough resources)
3. Linux Weekly News (they need it now)
4. A mix of distributors who accept donations
(Debian+Mandrake+Slackware+LinuxPPC+whoever)
5. Numerous foundations that give scholarship to O-S hackers.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> Or, if those NPOs are approved by the Israeli Income Tax (or there are
> relevant approved NPOs), then your friend's company can donate more than
> the money actually left over (actually 1/70% = 1.43 times more), and use
> the income tax credit for donations (30% if I am not mistaken) to cover
> the difference.
>
> A third approach is to invite two Israeli NPOs to issue receipts against
> the collected mooney (as was done, at my suggestion, when collecting money
> in exchange for Linux CD-ROMs in a Linux booth few years ago). But I am
> not sure this is appropriate at this time, because contrary to the
> situation at the time, the NPOs will have to cough up money for the
> event's expenses and may not have much money left over to justify the
> expense of issuing receipts.
> --- Omer
>
> On 30 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>
> > OK boys and girls, pop quiz.
> >
> > We have two options on how to deal with the money for August Penguin.
> > The organizing people can't seem to aggree. We need YOU to choose.
> >
> > 1. Each person pays 50 NIS, and get a recipiet for it from a friend of
> > mine who has company which among other things organises events. Expenses
> > for the event (movie + hall) shall be paid by my friends company. If
> > there is money missing in the end of the day I'm going to cover the
> > difference, no problem. If there is extra money left she is going to
> > donate it to some NPO (e,.g. FSF) minus the tax she paid on the 'profit'
> > she officialy made.
> >
> > Pros: simple, legal and allows people that can to tax deduct the 50 NIS
> > as an expense.
> > Cons: Extra money, if any, goes to some NPO.
> >
> > 2. Each person pays 50 NIS, does *not* get a recipiet. Expnses are paid
> > by organisers and anything not covered is our problem. If we have too
> > much money at the end of the event each participant receives back the
> > part from his 50 NIS that were not used, rounded up to the closest
> > multiple of 5.
> >
> > Pros: fair, we'll return the extra money if any as promised.
> >
> > Cons: Probably illegal (no recipient, not VAt etc. etc.), you can't get
> > recipiet so you can't tax deduct the expense and at least to my view
> > down right impractical, but some lunatics here call me weird... :-)
>
>
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