Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 15:52:24 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." said: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 02:47:37 +0900 > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > > > well tbh you're right here. crypto currencies swing far more in value > > on a daily/weekly basis than the usd or euro do in a whole year. > >

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:30:41 -0800 Bryce Harrington said: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 12:06:58PM -0500, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:48:53 -0500 > > Cedric Bail wrote: > > > What would be the benefit of SPI/SFC ? > > > > In short they handling the financial and legal pa

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 02:47:37 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > well tbh you're right here. crypto currencies swing far more in value > on a daily/weekly basis than the usd or euro do in a whole year. > > that's kind of ha;f the fun of them... :) For investing and stuff. Not fun f

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 11:35:43 -0800 Bryce Harrington wrote: > > In practice, with both organizations, I've seen healthy interactions > between their staff and general members of the projects. The liaison > tends to be more of a facilitator of discussions than a bottleneck, in > my experience. > >

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 01:52:42PM -0500, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:30:41 -0800 > Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > > I work with both SPI and SFC (SPI via X.org board where I serve as > > treasurer, SFC via Inkscape where I serve as chairperson). > > Are you the liason? T

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:30:41 -0800 Bryce Harrington wrote: > > I work with both SPI and SFC (SPI via X.org board where I serve as > treasurer, SFC via Inkscape where I serve as chairperson). Are you the liason? That was the only real limitation I saw to organizations. Having a single point of cont

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:17:59 -0500 Cedric Bail wrote: > > It is unlikely we can get the amount of money needed to pay a > developer or more. So our use of the money will continue to be for > server/infrastructure maintenance and conference help. If you do have > an idea on how to get enough money

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 12:06:58PM -0500, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:48:53 -0500 > Cedric Bail wrote: > > What would be the benefit of SPI/SFC ? > > In short they handling the financial and legal paper work and > compliance. They are accountants, attorneys/lawyers, etc

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:06:58 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." said: > On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:48:53 -0500 > Cedric Bail wrote: > > > > Yup, paypal is not free and not without risk. > > Nothing is without risk. But digital currency is very risky. At least > there is some customer service, fraud prot

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread Cedric Bail
On March 5, 2018 12:20 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:15:03 -0500 > Cedric Bail ced...@ddlm.me wrote: > > On March 4, 2018 9:27 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. > > wlt...@obsidian-studios.com wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:33:17 +0100 > > > Vincent Torri vincent.to...@g

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:48:53 -0500 Cedric Bail wrote: > > Yup, paypal is not free and not without risk. Nothing is without risk. But digital currency is very risky. At least there is some customer service, fraud protection etc. There is also Google Pay (wallet), but I am not a fan of Google. It

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread Cedric Bail
On March 6, 2018 8:43 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 04:16:21 +0100 > Vincent Torri vincent.to...@gmail.com wrote: > > more precisely (see the french "1901 law" which specifies all the > > legal stuff , and it is for all associations), it is not possible to > > share prof

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-06 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 04:16:21 +0100 Vincent Torri wrote: > > more precisely (see the french "1901 law" which specifies all the > legal stuff , and it is for all associations), it is not possible to > share profits out among a set of people (like the creators of the > association) Ah, I see the keyw

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-05 Thread Vincent Torri
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:20 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:15:03 -0500 > Cedric Bail wrote: > >> On March 4, 2018 9:27 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:33:17 +0100 >> > Vincent Torri vincent.to...@gmail.com wrote: >> > > Hello >> > > >>

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-05 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:20:36 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > Why I provided information on Gnome as well. Just realized I omitted Gnome information Gnome seems to be ~$250k-$500k https://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/ -- William L. Thomson Jr. pgpMcWCrm8E8X.pgp Description: OpenP

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-05 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:15:03 -0500 Cedric Bail wrote: > On March 4, 2018 9:27 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. > wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:33:17 +0100 > > Vincent Torri vincent.to...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > The « Enlighenment.fr » association aims to help all the actions > >

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-05 Thread Cedric Bail
On March 4, 2018 9:27 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:33:17 +0100 > Vincent Torri vincent.to...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello > > > > The « Enlighenment.fr » association aims to help all the actions > > which are involved in the development and diffusion of « > > Enlighten

Re: [E-devel] Donations

2018-03-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:33:17 +0100 Vincent Torri wrote: > Hello > > The « Enlighenment.fr » association aims to help all the actions > which are involved in the development and diffusion of « > Enlightenment » and the software libraries « EFL », as well as all the > FOSS using or linked in a w