This is where I'd like to again pitch reaching out to https://sfconservancy.org/ - I'd be willing to do the leg work - but I'd need permission from the council of elders before I did such a thing.
https://sfconservancy.org/projects/services/ —Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 3:02 PM Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 10, 2021, at 14:01, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > On 11/10/21 14:59, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Nov 10, 2021, at 12:11, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >> > >>> Should we turn on the GitHub Sponsors functionality for the project on > GitHub? > >>> > >>> It doesn't cost us anything to do it, and the money raised could be > used to do things like buying hardware for builds and such. > >> MacPorts is not a legal organization so I don't see how it could accept > donations. > > > > You don't need to be incorporated to accept money. Incorporation is only > necessary if you want to claim to be a nonprofit or if you worry that you > need limited liability. There's no legal obstacle to an unincorporated > association opening a bank account, and they do all the time. > > These donations would be classified as somebody's income. Somebody would > have to pay income taxes on them. Who? > >
