Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraising 2013] Wikimedia France stepping back from payment processing

2013-05-02 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Fae wrote: > I'm hoping that the WMF can set a lead by publishing a calculation of > admin ratio for themselves. ;-) > > PS staff salaries are not all automatically 'admin', I hope we can > agree that some > program activities are entirely justifiably supported by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraising 2013] Wikimedia France stepping back from payment processing

2013-04-30 Thread Christophe Henner
Hey Dan, Sure : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance_d'utilit%C3%A9_publique and http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/associations/F1131.xhtml In France all associations are, a priori, charities. The french fiscal services can withdraw that status for many reasons. One of them is if they bel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraising 2013] Wikimedia France stepping back from payment processing

2013-04-30 Thread Charles Andres
AFAIK , WMDE and WMCH are the last ones. I do not remember an announce about WMUK for the next fundraising. but I don't understand what's the link with the FDC. In general I would encourage to avoid to speak about paiement processing out of its specific context, that's mean fundraising process

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraising 2013] Wikimedia France stepping back from payment processing

2013-04-30 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Christophe, About this "reconnaissance d'utilite publique" or "supercharity" concept; is there a link to an analysis (preferable) or even just the text of the law/provision/regulation? Even one in French only would be OK, I'm just curious to know more about how it works in practice. -Dan Dan Ros

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraising 2013] Wikimedia France stepping back from payment processing

2013-04-30 Thread Fae
On 29 April 2013 21:28, Christophe Henner wrote: ... > In face of that situation, Wikimedia France board has asked WMF to > stop being a payment processor in 2013 Hi Christophe, thank you for giving this difficult decision some suitable context, and for doing so openly and promptly. Could someon

[Wikimedia-l] [Fundraising 2013] Wikimedia France stepping back from payment processing

2013-04-29 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, A quick email to announce and explain current WMFr payment processor status. As some of you know, French regulations makes it hard to transfer ver 50% of the fund raised locally to an international organisation. Until know, WMFr budget was always somewhat equal to 50% of the money r