Re: GUADEC registration
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 16:22 +0200, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote: On 23/07/14 23:44, Richard Stallman wrote: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Estimates of costs regarding audits come directly from accountants who could do the work and who have previously advised the Foundation employees that the best way to avoid being audited is to not do anything which may trigger an audit. Could you put me in touch with them? I would like to ask them why they think bitcoin use is likely to be one of them, and what evidence there is of this. I will also ask Karen. Richard, I'm curious if you got more information about this, and if yes, could you share it? My guess is that this discussion is only academic. GNOME Foundation can receive donations through Bitcoin, and the web page was already enabled by when this issue was raised: http://www.gnome.org/friends/other-ways-to-donate/ If it were an actual issue, it would not be there. I guess. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADEC registration
On 27/08/14 18:45, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 16:22 +0200, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote: On 23/07/14 23:44, Richard Stallman wrote: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Estimates of costs regarding audits come directly from accountants who could do the work and who have previously advised the Foundation employees that the best way to avoid being audited is to not do anything which may trigger an audit. Could you put me in touch with them? I would like to ask them why they think bitcoin use is likely to be one of them, and what evidence there is of this. I will also ask Karen. Richard, I'm curious if you got more information about this, and if yes, could you share it? ... GNOME Foundation can receive donations through Bitcoin As I'm guessing that currently GNOME Foundation converts instantly to USD every BTC donation that is received (which in my mind wouldn't trigger any audits, as all finances would still be in USD), I had understood that this thread was not anymore about just receiving donations, but also managing finances in bitcoin, which is what apparently BitGive is doing, according to this article: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2014/08/26/sacramento-charity-may-be-nations-first-bitcoin.html (Which is actually the main way to save costs/time on banking fees/processes, that could be interesting to nonprofits such as us.) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of August 15th, 2014
Le mardi 26 août 2014 à 20:08 -0700, Germán Poo-Caamaño a écrit : First at all, thanks for the minutes. A couple of questions: [...] * Outstanding brand use requests * need someone to take action/mail Carol Hanson re: Permission request for Personal use of Gnome foot * ACTION: Jeff to reply to her Was this reply positive or negative? Any rationale that could be shared? Positive. It was fine with us as it was for a personal one-time gift for one person. The reason why this was only approved now is that the request fell through the cracks under the avalanche of mails, the events (GUADEC etc.) and the handover between the old and new board. * Andreas to ask Karen and Pam how much we should disclose to the community about the ongoing discussion with Groupon I guess Pam refers to Pamela Chestek. Is this right? BTW, What was the outcome? Shall we assume the outcome was to not disclose anything considering the last minutes only say Groupon? We are not publicly disclosing because it is an ongoing legal matter. Of course, we want to be as transparent as possible, so as soon as our legal counsel advises us it is prudent to discuss publicly, we will. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADEC registration
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Richard, I'm curious if you got more information about this, and if yes, could you share it? Eben Moglen seemed to think there was no problem, but since the GNOME Foundation is his client, it should consult him directly. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADEC registration
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Converting bitcoins to dollars immediately seems fine to me as a way to accept payment in bitcoin. Does the GNOME Foundation accept payment for GUADEC this way? If not, could it do so? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
