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Re: Funding the build farm
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Funding the build farm |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:12:49 +0100 |
Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
> 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 is a separate organisation with separate infrastructure and
separate finances.
~~ Ricardo
- Re: Funding the build farm, (continued)
Re: Funding the build farm, Andreas Enge, 2015/11/22
Re: Funding the build farm, John Darrington, 2015/11/23
Re: Funding the build farm, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2015/11/24
Re: Funding the build farm, Efraim Flashner, 2015/11/24
Re: Funding the build farm, John Darrington, 2015/11/24
Re: Funding the build farm,
Ricardo Wurmus <=