I think you are right, Drew. Now is definitely the time to get a US non-profit going. For those of us who are German-challenged, could you give a brief summary of how the German and Italian groups are currently organized?
Matthew Copple [email protected] On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:23 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The subject no one wants to have to deal with - money. > > Early on there was talk about forming a legal entity in the US to > promote LibreOffice - I was asked to not pursue that discussion and in > the mailing list I said it would be best to table the discussion. > > IMO the time to pick it up from the table is upon us. > > A quick review of the mailing lists and I would say there is maybe 14 > active folks from the US - not a lot, but enough. > > Quite simply, there is no reason from anything I can see to expect any > real funding coming from TDF. Which begs the question - Where from then? > > I would ask those on the list here to review the site http://ooodev.org > and ask questions about it if need be - what I propose is the formation > of a _similar_ organization in the US, or I should say, to be precise, > that it is a good point to see if this fits in with the desires of > others and if so, to begin discussing how to make it happen. > > Comments? > > > Thanks much > > Drew > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Matthew G. Copple [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
