Re: Funding the build farm

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 04:54:54PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
     On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:38:38 +0100
     John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:
     
     > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:53:06AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
     >      On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     >  [...]  
     > 
     >      It may still be interesting to also go via the FSF. This would mean 
bank
     >      accounts in the euro and the dollar currency spaces, and it might 
be easier
     >      for US donors to deduce donations from their taxes.
     > 
     > The FSF does have a EUR bank account.  However, if past experience is 
anything
     > to go by, then :
     > 
     > 1.  The FSF will have little interest in collecting funds for specific 
projects.
     >     They (with a few very special exceptions) only take donations which 
go into
     >     central FSF funds to be dispersed as they think fit.
     > 
     >   AND
     > 
     > 2.  The Conservancy (which normally DOES do directed funding) refuses to 
do so for
     >     GNU projects, for fear of offending the FSF.
     > 
     
     What about the FSFE? Would they be more amenable or are they just the
     European arm of the FSF?
     
The FSFE have no association with the FSF except that they maintain an informal 
liaison.

A year or so ago, I suggested to Karsten Gerloff, the FSFE president that they 
start such a programme.   His response was that the FSFE was forbidden by law 
(presumably German law - they are an e.V.) from doing that.

J'



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