On Fri, March 9, 2012 7:30 am, Chris Kühl wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Dave Neary <dne...@free.fr> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> GNOME has at least 3 sister organisations, with bank accounts, in the >> EU: GNOME Hispanic, GNOME-fr and GNOME Deutschland eV. >> >> Why not create some kind of official relationship with one or more of >> them?
I've looked into this in other contexts and always came up against the unknown tax consequences blocker - anyone know a tax lawyer in these countries who would maybe do some pro bono work for us? (All the lawyers I know in the free software world are copyright lawyers and such, and I've never gotten a great lead on an affordable or pro bono tax lawyer.) >> > > Looking at the GNOME Deutschland e.V. website[1], I wouldn't consider > it a likely candidate for such a relationship and the writing on that > page doesn't seem likes it's always in GNOME's best interest. It > states that the site is run by an individual and has no connection > with GNOME e.V. Does the GNOME e.V. even exist any longer? There's > probably a backstory to this I'm not aware of. A very interesting question - I'd love to know more about this. karen _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list