Forwarded this mail to SHR-coreteam and SHR-devel maillists, as there are some devs who don't read SHR-user maillist.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patryk Benderz <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:58:31 +0100 Subject: Re: [Shr-User] Donating to SHR To: [email protected] [cut] > Thanks for that. Perhaps someone involved in SHR could setup a similar > paypal email address so we can donate to both projects? Good question. But when creating such account several things need to be considered: * set up at least some basic rules, so rules are transparent. * who should be included in division of funds? I get an impression that most of projects divides their funds between core-team members. * you have to find a way how to divide (fairly) incoming funds between participants. Based on commits? Looks nice at a first glance, but looking deeply... what about all those guys who writes patches but do not have access to commit them to repository? Sounds not so fair now, doesn'it? * probably you need to register this in some tax offices as some kind of (non-profit?) organisation. * you have to carefully pick a country, in which project would be registered to avoid heavy taxes, or even tax exempt! * many other things i do not know about. I am sure there are ready how-to/documents with best practices to follow when creating such accounts for open sorce projects, but had no time to make a full research. Just a quick search gave me [1] and [2] which might be interesting place to ask for advices. Also I have found interesting article [3] about OSS financing schemas. [1] http://www.opensource.org/ [2] http://www.linuxfund.org/ [3] http://www.packtpub.com/article/the-economics-of-open-source-donations -- Patryk "LeadMan" Benderz Linux Registered User #377521 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Email secured by Check Point _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user -- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak dos _______________________________________________ Shr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
