Hi Peter, I did go to register for an account for flattr, and was also going to apply for a nonprofit/charity account and I noticed this text in the FAQ, listing software organizations as not eligible for a nonprofit account:
> These will normally NOT get a charity account - Churches, Political > parties, Sports, Culture, Events, Exhibitions, Software and other types > of non profit organizations without a clear charitable cause. I understand that the other organizations that you list do not have a charitable cause as their primary goal, but that is not necessarily true about software organizations. The GNOME Foundation, like other charitable free software 501(c)(3) organizations, is dedicated to creating software in the public interest and creating a public work that increases access to technology for those who would not otherwise have it. We also advocated for the adoption of free and open source software for safety and for the betterment of society (check out my OSCON speech about the safety of software on implanted medical devices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZGpES-St8). Clearly we have a clear charitable cause, and our tax exempt status is predicated on that. I would understand excluding software trade associations (501(c)(6) organizations like the Eclipse Foundation or the Linux Foundation), but why all software organizations? Free software orgs like GNOME obviously do have a clear charitable cause - that is how they are formed and also classed as such by the IRS. Is this one of the situations outside of what is normally done? Should we apply? Would you consider changing the wording of your FAQ to indicate that there are times when software organizations do have a charitable cause. Perhaps by saying "...and other types of organizations which are sometimes without a clear charitable cause? thanks for following up with us, Karen Sandler On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:11 am, Peter Ross wrote: > Hi, > > My name's Peter Ross and I'm writing from Flattr, the micro-payments > system. > > I was just looking at > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.marketing/7604 where your > members seem to be interested in using Flattr to collect donations for > Gnome. > > I was just wondering if there was anything I could do to help this process > along. > > As I understand it, the plan is to use a Word Press plugin which shouldn't > be too hard to implement. Also you need to register an account for Gnome, > as there isn't currently one in Flattr.com. > > Both actions should be fairly straightforward to achieve. > > Please get back to me if you need anything or need any help in getting > everything up and running. > > Thanks, > > Peter. > > > Peter Ross > Flattr - social micropayments > www.flattr.com > @Peterro55 > > > > > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
