Re: Question to candidates: Best use of Trademark Fundraiser money?

2015-05-27 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 21:52 +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > I think most of us haven't seen latest the accounts yet, but I think > it's > probably fair to assume that a war chest of ~$100,000 is probably a > wee bit > excessive. ;-) It doesn't sound like a lot of money to me. It'

Re: GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread Magdalen Berns
Hi Josh, And thanks for the confirmation about GNOME's status. > I doubt the information from California Department of justice is inaccurate, but if that is the case it would be wise for us to address that with them. What I suspect is more likely to have happened is what Karen has suggested could

Re: GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:07:37AM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > I advise those who wish to follow 501(c)(3) status of Free Software related > orgs to check this repository [0] that community members maintain. It > includes > a copy of the IRS revocation notice file [1] and the IRS "in good sta

Re: GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
I advise those who wish to follow 501(c)(3) status of Free Software related orgs to check this repository [0] that community members maintain. It includes a copy of the IRS revocation notice file [1] and the IRS "in good standing" list [2] (which you can also get from the IRS website directly). I

Re: GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread Magdalen Berns
> I've seen this mentioned previously on this list as well, and I'm >> curious how that happened. >> > There is an interesting blog about these things which is worth a read (seems a little like some rule tightening has gone on and perhaps caught a few organisations unaware, but it's hard to say wh

Re: GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2015-05-27 13:33, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 05:32:27PM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote: With that said, at the moment we are technically “delinquent" so we have lost our tax exempt status for not submitting required 990 forms.[4,5] Assuming that has been a mistake and

GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread josh
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 05:32:27PM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote: > With that said, at the moment we are technically “delinquent" so we have > lost our tax exempt status for not submitting required 990 forms.[4,5] > Assuming that has been a mistake and that we do actually want to benefit > from 501(c

Re: GIMP donation

2015-05-27 Thread Rosanna Yuen
Hi Mike, When our account was closed with Citizens Bank, our ties with the bank were severed. As we neither own the account nor sent the funds, it is unlikely either bank will be willing to give us information about your wire transfer. If you contact your bank you should be able to initiate a tr

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:27:28AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Thinking about your answer, and a couple of others, I realize that I > didn't phrase my question clearly. > > You've made several _technical_ suggestions for how GNOME can be more > useful and thus do more to enhance GNU/Linux and

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Magdalen Berns
Hi Richard, How do you suggest the GNOME Foundation could contribute more to > advance the cause of free software and users' freedom, over and above > what GNOME contributes by being useful free software? I am not sure whether you feel I answered your question either. I think it could be useful

Re: GIMP donation

2015-05-27 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 27 May 2015 at 17:02, Mike Saunders wrote: > On 2015-05-27 17:58, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> >> >> Those instructions are wrong, I have contacted someone at GIMP asking >> them to update the details for the donations. > > > Thanks. Can you find out if the money was accepted? We've never hea

Re: GIMP donation

2015-05-27 Thread Mike Saunders
On 2015-05-27 17:58, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Those instructions are wrong, I have contacted someone at GIMP asking them to update the details for the donations. Thanks. Can you find out if the money was accepted? We've never heard of Northern Trust either, but if if now owns the Citizens

Re: GIMP donation

2015-05-27 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 27 May 2015 at 14:00, Mike Saunders wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I work for Linux Voice magazine and we donated £300 to GIMP (via the Gnome > Foundation): > http://www.linuxvoice.com/first-profit-donating-scheme-the-winners/ > > We made a bank transfer following the instructions here: > http://www

Re: GIMP donation

2015-05-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Mike Saunders wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I work for Linux Voice magazine and we donated £300 to GIMP (via the Gnome > Foundation): > http://www.linuxvoice.com/first-profit-donating-scheme-the-winners/ > > We made a bank transfer following the instructions here: > ht

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
Thinking about your answer, and a couple of others, I realize that I didn't phrase my question clearly. You've made several _technical_ suggestions for how GNOME can be more useful and thus do more to enhance GNU/Linux and the free world. They are interesting ideas, and could make GNOME a better

GIMP donation

2015-05-27 Thread Mike Saunders
Hi everyone, I work for Linux Voice magazine and we donated £300 to GIMP (via the Gnome Foundation): http://www.linuxvoice.com/first-profit-donating-scheme-the-winners/ We made a bank transfer following the instructions here: http://www.gimp.org/donating/ That was on 18th of May, with refe

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Carlos Soriano Sanchez
Hi Richard, I echo what Allan said. I remark: I would like GNOME to positively influence other projects both propriety and Free Software ones. In my opinion the best way is make GNOME a good example to be, make it reach more people, and promote GNOME as a good solution for the users, being one of

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Allan Day
Richard Stallman wrote: > I'd like to ask the candidates, how do you think GNOME should > contribute more to the advance of free software and users' freedom in > general (in addition to being useful free software). Obviously we want GNOME to be successful and for there to be greater adoption, and

Re: Question on community to the candidates.

2015-05-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mo, 2015-05-25 at 21:16 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > It is my impression (and I state impression because I am providing no > data) that GNOME has more reliance on people paid to work on GNOME > than community. This is also my impression. In addition to what others have noted, I think