On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:38:38 +0100 John Darrington 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? -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted