From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Funding the build farm
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:00:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2p8rca7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151122105306.GA4493@debian.ntu.edu.sg> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2015 11:53:06 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> So, what can we do? We could go to another fiscal sponsor for free
>> software projects in the US, either Conservancy or SPI, Inc., but they
>> may redirect us to the FSF because we’re GNU.
>>
>> We could look for something similar in Europe but I don’t know of any.
>>
>> Or we could just create a bank account (I want to avoid PayPal) and
>> possibly a non-profit and do it ourselves. But this has drawbacks, see
>> <https://lwn.net/Articles/548558/> for instance.
>
> Definitely I am in favour of creating a French "association loi 1901".
> From what I have heard of diverse clubs I am a member of, this is rather
> easy; but so far I have not had the time to look into it.
Yeah I think it would be fine to do both, and probably more convenient
for donors.
I’m happy to join a bunch of French people to sit down and do the
paperwork.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-23 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-21 6:45 updating list of substitutes Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 8:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-21 8:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 9:19 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-21 10:02 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 12:02 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-21 16:38 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-22 19:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-04-22 11:46 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-22 12:24 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-22 12:35 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-22 13:08 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-04-23 9:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-26 12:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-05-26 20:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-11 7:46 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-11 8:47 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-10-11 18:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-11 21:27 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-12 5:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-12 6:06 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-12 16:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-12 21:12 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-12 17:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 12:11 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-13 12:52 ` Andreas Enge
2015-10-13 14:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-18 16:15 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-11-18 16:28 ` Thompson, David
2015-11-18 16:30 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2015-11-18 18:29 ` Funding the build farm Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-18 18:38 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-11-18 20:55 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-11-18 21:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-18 21:26 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-11-22 10:53 ` Andreas Enge
2015-11-23 15:00 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-11-23 15:29 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-11-23 19:38 ` John Darrington
2015-11-24 12:05 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2015-11-24 14:54 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-11-24 15:12 ` John Darrington
2015-11-24 15:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-11-18 23:09 matias_jose_seco
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