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Below is an email from internal communications amongst board members |
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back in 2008. This was a private internal email. But I do not believe it |
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contains any sensitive or private information. Since others did not have |
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access to the information, I feel its in alls best interest for it to be |
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known. |
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It contains information regarding the SFLC and SPI. I will forward on |
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one more to this list. For reference and historic purposes only. |
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-------- Forwarded Message -------- |
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> From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> |
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> To: William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr@g.o>, trustees@g.o |
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> Subject: Re: What does the IRS Consider a Donation ? |
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> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:02:30 +0000 |
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> |
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> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
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> Hash: SHA1 |
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> |
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> On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:31:39 -0400 |
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> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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> > On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 22:20 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Yes. If it were up to me and my own dream, I'd incorporate outside the |
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> > > US and the EU. Like, I think, Ubuntu. |
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> > |
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> > That's ideal but there is hardly interest in or a purpose for the one |
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> > atm. IMHO I would rather see us move to SPI before trying to setup |
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> > additional foundations and creating a bigger mess. |
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> > |
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> > Related to the topic, I think regional foundations like that can help |
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> > wrt to tax deductible donations from abroad. Like regional donations, |
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> > accounted for regionally. Then once a quarter or etc all funds are |
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> > transferred to parent foundation. |
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> > |
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> > But we are no where near ready for such things. If that's the direction |
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> > we do want to go. Then we seriously need to look at and work toward SPI. |
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> > |
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> I've always favored that. I understood they could not take us at this |
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> time and thus we went with what we had. |
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> > SFLC is not likely to be an option in 08. If we might want to do it in |
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> > 09, we will need to get dialog with them ASAP. Much less them invite us, |
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> > and get additional funding to be able to take us on. SFLC is borderline |
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> > pipe dream. SPI is real and there when ever we wan to engage them. |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > William L. Thomson Jr. |
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> > amd64/Java/Trustees |
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> > Gentoo Foundation |
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> > |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> Ferris |
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> - -- |
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> Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees) |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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Obsidian-Studios, Inc. |
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http://www.obsidian-studios.com |
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This message (including any attachments) contains confidential |
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information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is |
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protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should |
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delete this message. |
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