Gentoo Archives: gentoo-trustees

From: Deedra Waters <dmwaters@g.o>
To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-trustees] We need $500 for a bank account
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:23:03
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0408151821280.9380@shell.osuosl.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-trustees] We need $500 for a bank account by Corey Shields
1 I have a paypal account that could be used for this if it's needed.
2 However, my Gentoo email address isn't on it, though I don't know if
3 anyone cares about that. Either way, it can be used if it's needed..
4 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Corey Shields wrote:
5
6 > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:23:27 -0500
7 > From: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o>
8 > Reply-To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
9 > To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
10 > Subject: RE: [gentoo-trustees] We need $500 for a bank account
11 >
12 >
13 > Does someone have a paypal account who could be a holding place for this?
14 > We could announce the goal and the temp. paypal account, and then transfer
15 > that money to Kurt who could then open the account. I've talked to many
16 > people who said they would be willing to help open an account. In the same
17 > note we could go even further and announce the need for funds to do the
18 > 501(c)(6) filing, $500.. So either set a goal of $500 and put any excess
19 > towards the IRS filing, or set a goal of $1,000 and any extra stays in the
20 > bank.
21 >
22 > I'm not saying this is the best solution, but I trust everyone in this group
23 > enough that anyone should be able to act as a middle man here.
24 >
25 > -Corey
26 >
27 > -----Original Message-----
28 > From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:klieber@g.o]
29 > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 6:06 PM
30 > To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
31 > Subject: [gentoo-trustees] We need $500 for a bank account
32 >
33 > Regarding our bank account, NetBank (the original bank I was targeting)
34 > requires an initial deposit of $500.
35 >
36 > Looking at some of the other options, I wasn't able to find another
37 > alternative that a) was a business account and b) didn't have some sort of
38 > similar minimum deposit requirement.
39 >
40 > Regardless, we need to figure out how we're going to raise funds anyways,
41 > so...ideas on how we can come up with $500?
42 >
43 > --kurt
44 >
45 >
46 > --
47 > gentoo-trustees@g.o mailing list
48 >
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52 dmwaters@g.o
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RE: [gentoo-trustees] We need $500 for a bank account Corey Shields <cshields@g.o>