Re: Funding the build farm

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:38:38 +0100
> John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> 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