Hi all, On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Patryk Benderz <[email protected]> wrote: > [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 >
I think OE people know about this in Germany, as they have money that mannage. Is there some OE eV member to take a little bit of light about this question? Regards -- ___________ Rafael Campos o0 Methril 0o http://openblog.methril.net/ _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
