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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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=E2=80=99re GNU.
>>=20
>> We could look for something similar in Europe but I don=E2=80=99t know o=
f any.
>>=20
>> 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=E2=80=99m happy to join a bunch of French people to sit down and do the
paperwork.

Ludo=E2=80=99.