Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib donations

2007-12-03 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 1:15 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just a question: how do you handle taxes? Won't you be stuck paying >> income tax on any donations? Not that I know of any way to get around >> it short of incorporating as a nonprofit. > > That is a good q

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib donations

2007-12-03 Thread John Hunter
On Dec 3, 2007 1:52 PM, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>short of incorporating as a nonprofit. > > That's sure a lot of work -- can the PSA host this sort of thing? It > would be a whole lot easier to use an existing organization. Well, noone is proposing setting up an organizati

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib donations

2007-12-03 Thread Christopher Barker
>>short of incorporating as a nonprofit. That's sure a lot of work -- can the PSA host this sort of thing? It would be a whole lot easier to use an existing organization. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R(206) 526-6959 vo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib donations

2007-12-03 Thread John Hunter
On Dec 3, 2007 1:15 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a question: how do you handle taxes? Won't you be stuck paying > income tax on any donations? Not that I know of any way to get around > it short of incorporating as a nonprofit. That is a good question -- does a donation not

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib donations

2007-12-03 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: > To enable donations, all project admins must opt in. In addition to > me, those are Charlie, Darren, Eric, Jeff and Michael and the opt in > page is at > http://sourceforge.net/project/admin/donations.php?group_id=80706. > The donations are set up to go into my paypal account

[matplotlib-devel] matplotlib donations

2007-12-03 Thread John Hunter
Some time ago, I talked about enabling mpl donations to raise money for development. My goal is to promote donations with some reasonably prominent info on the web page, and some emails as well, to raise enough to fund a sprint.This is the blurb I wrote for the donations page: All donations