Re: Withdrawl of fee for producing Debian CDs

1997-01-22 Thread James W. Lynch
I'm the Sec'try/Treasurer of a local amateur radio club and we just set up an account at the local bank. The only drawback was that they wanted the SSN of the club officers. I'd guess you'd have to apply for a not-for-profit (as opposed to a non-profit) organization tax id, if you wanted to

Re: Withdrawl of fee for producing Debian CDs

1997-01-22 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote: [clip] In any case, whether we call it contributions or payments, the bottom line is, we need a place to send money for the project. The ability to do this is a pre-depends on any other scheme for financing the project. Doesn't the project have

Re: Withdrawl of fee for producing Debian CDs

1997-01-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote: [clip] In any case, whether we call it contributions or payments, the bottom line is, we need a place to send money for the project. The ability to do this is a pre-depends on any other scheme for

Withdrawl of fee for producing Debian CDs

1997-01-21 Thread Bruce Perens
One of the problems of leading a group of volunteers is that one can only lead where they will follow. There was too much resentment among a number of Debian developers over the $2 fee I proposed to charge for the privilege of producing the official Debian CD. Thus, Debian will not charge any fee

Re: Withdrawl of fee for producing Debian CDs

1997-01-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: One of the problems of leading a group of volunteers is that one can only lead where they will follow. There was too much resentment among a number of Debian developers over the $2 fee I proposed to charge for the privilege of producing the official