Re: [Gnumed-devel] to fund or not to fund :-)

[Horst Herb]

On Fri, 28 May 2004 18:38, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> I still see nothing wrong with potential users funding the effort as they
> chose . They will never get assurance that their donations will pay off but
> neither do volunteers get that insurance. Although it may be/is wrong to
> request donation of time , infrastructure, money I see nothing wrong in
> reminding bystanders that they can make the difference in terms of
> development speed and so forth.

If it really is an issue, we should register a gnumed branch as not-for-profit 
entity is some country where this is cheap and easy (and does not at the same 
time open the doors to litigation), accept donations openly with open 
accounting (via the web), and reimburse contributors for expenses according 
to a yet to be drafted charta. But is has to be in a completely transparent 
and open way.

Registering such entity in Australia is expensive and pointless. If I remember 
right, in Germany it was rather cheap and painless to do this. I would be 
happy to bear the costs of registration.

Horst