From: Peter T. <pet...@at...> - 2005-11-15 00:56:43
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A non-profit foundation makes sense. I would love to have a budget for speaker engagements. So far I spent a few thousand dollars out of my own pocket for open source TWiki related web hosting and travel. Regards, Peter Crawford Currie wrote: > > Another point is that if a non-profit foundation was in existance, it > could be the beneficiary from adsense on TWiki.org. A small income, > perhaps, but every little helps. > > Sven Dowideit wrote: > > > In line with this, creating a proper registered non-profit foundation > > will allow certain companies to donate hardware (in line with corporate > > policy) so we really should strongly consider something that allows it... > > > > Sven > > > > Crawford Currie wrote: > > > > >A recent adopter contacted me recently to ask how their (small) company > > >can donate money to the TWiki project. They feel that Dakar release is a > > >major step forward, and want to give real monetary recognition to the > > >TWiki developers. > > > > >They are aware of the sourceforge donation mechanism, but there is no > > >way to donate money to anywhere except a registered individual at the > > >moment. I am registered, but I'm not sure how many other people are, and > > >besides, they want to donate to the *project*, not to an individual. > > >It's hard for someone to make a generic "thanks team" donation (except > > >to Katrina victims**) > > > > >It would be really good if there was a mechanism by which worldwide > > >companies could show their appreciation and help keep the project going. > > >The income is unlikely to be large, but it might conceivably be used for > > >good works, such as getting us a decent server for DEVELOP****. > > > > >Some possible approaches: > > > > > 1. One person is trusted to accept, manage, and distribute the cash > > > 2. Set up a non-profit foundation to manage such income, with > > > appropriate board of directors (maybe Ward would help) > > > 3. Align with an existing non-profit foundation, such as OSF > > > > >Regards, > > > > >C. > > > > >** In the light of subsequent world events, such as the asian > > >earthquake, I really think it's time we removed this, BTW. Changed to "Southeast Asia Earthquake" > > >**** As stated before, I and others would be prepared to donate > > >additional funds to support this. -- * Peter Thoeny Peter@Thoeny.com * Is your team already TWiki enabled? http://TWiki.org * This e-mail is: (x) public (_) ask first (_) private |