Gerald A <[email protected]> wrote: >> > A donation to a chapter within one jurisdiction is not something that is >> > easily moved to another chapter in another jurisdiction. >> > [...]
>> Why? If a chapter can pay a hosting company for their servi- >> ces with a donation, they should be able to pay WMDE for >> their services as well. There is no need to "move a donation >> to another jurisdiction". > Well, this ignores the political and logistical sensitivities involved in > paying WMDE from outside of DE. > While nothing prevents a chapter from opting to pay WMDE for this service, > I'm sure some members/contributors would be annoyed their monies are going > "out of country" when there are perfectly good hosting services "in our back > yard". I'm not sure on the legalities of Charities in all jurisdictions, but > this could also restrict/prevent a chapter registered as a charity from > sending money out of country. > [...] I'm not aware of any such restriction, and in the 27 coun- tries south of Norway they would probably be illegal anyhow. But maybe I'm just biased as a German member of a German Verein that pays for hosting in not-so-German Amsterdam - as long as the charitable goals are achieved, I don't see a problem. Tim _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
