Hi, sorry for my top posting but I always fail to quote emails like this correct.
It is no big thing here, the ASF had a pay pal account and people can donate whatever they want. We simply have to encourage people to do it and gave to make clear that donations are made for ASF and not only AOO. Nothing more and nothing less, quite straight forward and transparent to everybody. @Raphael, I don't have a problem to use our popular brand to collect money for the ASF in general. It' s gone for me if other good open source projects can benefit as well. It simply have to be clear from the beginning. Am Donnerstag, 4. April 2013 um 18:04 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > The PPMC went through this some time ago, because there were OO.o-specific > donation mechanisms that had to be either retired or redirected to ASF > donations. (There is a small-donation place for ASF donations. I used it once > to see how it worked.) > > Start here: <http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html>. > > As I recall: Short answer: the project can't solicit donations for > project-specific purposes. Longer answer: (1) Outside parties can raise funds > *and*disburse*them* for whatever they want to support, such as student > attendance at conferences, whatever. GSoC provides funding to the GSoC > "interns." (2) That party can't claim any affiliation with ASF or an Apache > Project and there had better be no confusion about that. > - Dennis > > PS: There was also a complex process to transfer an account balance from a > project-targeting fund raiser to the ASF. Ross Gardler should remember the > details. Louis Suárez-Potts knows more about the actual deal also. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 07:21 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>wrote: > > [ ... ] > > I can think of a much more prominent and more visible donation link or > > whatever to make clear that OpenOffice will still benefit from donations > > to the ASF. We have more IT requirements than other ASF projects, we > > generate more network traffic, etc. and all this cost money. > > > > [ ... ] > > And opinions or further ideas how we can improve this? It shouldn't be a > > big problem for us to collect the money we need. > > > > > I generally like the idea, and it would be easy to implement. But we > should check with appropriate ASF officers (treasurer?) or committees to > make sure this would work, and to see if there are any rules we must follow > with regards to solicitations. For example, it isn't clear to me whether > we're equipped to handle many small donations, or whether the ASF mainly > works with large corporate donations. It could be an administrative > problem to get thousands of 20 euro donations if they need to be processed > manually, for example. > > -Rob > > > > Juergen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
