Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:26:19PM +0200, Jelle Hermsen wrote: For deduce taxes from donations, the dragonfly project needs create a non-profit organization and this is something complex and time consuming. It needn't be this complex and time consuming, because there are non-profit

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread elekktretterr
You're right. I forgot about SFC. You see, there are ways. But even if DragonFly wanted to register as non-profit on it's own. Sure it's complex and time consuming, but it's been _10_ years.

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread David.Crosswell
On 28/06/12 09:33, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: You're right. I forgot about SFC. You see, there are ways. But even if DragonFly wanted to register as non-profit on it's own. Sure it's complex and time consuming, but it's been _10_ years. I'm not even sure why registering as a

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread David.Crosswell
On 28/06/12 09:33, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: You're right. I forgot about SFC. You see, there are ways. But even if DragonFly wanted to register as non-profit on it's own. Sure it's complex and time consuming, but it's been _10_ years. Even considering that a non-profit

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread elekktretterr
Even considering that a non-profit registration is necessary? Because majority of people, including me, consider donating for the specific reason of reducing personal taxes. I'd rather pay $100 to DragonFlyBSD than to Uncle Sam.

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread elekktretterr
Even considering that a non-profit registration is necessary? Furthermore, in my experience, companies(who have naturally much bigger capital) will only ever donate to non-profits, to reduce their own tax burden.

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:17:17AM +1000, David.Crosswell wrote: On 28/06/12 09:33, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: You're right. I forgot about SFC. You see, there are ways. But even if DragonFly wanted to register as non-profit on it's own. Sure it's complex and time consuming, but

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread elekktretterr
I never said it was easy to get non-profit company status. Matt runs this project. Anything that happens is his decision. All I'm saying is that more ways need to be exploited to attract funding and skills to move this project further quicker, otherwise it's forever going to be just a research

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread elekktretterr
We need to state why DragonFly's goals are superior. Why should people give their precious time and money to our cause instead of theirs? Majority of *nix users still don't know much, if anything, about DragonFly. I don't mean superior to minix in particular, but superior to other

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 27 June 2012 20:40:38 elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: Even considering that a non-profit registration is necessary? Because majority of people, including me, consider donating for the specific reason of reducing personal taxes. I'd rather pay $100 to DragonFlyBSD than to

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Thu 28/06/12 07:51, Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: On Wednesday 27 June 2012 20:40:38 elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: Even considering that a non-profit registration is necessary? Because majority of people, including me, consider donating for the specific reason of