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Hm, ok, so, if I decide I want to donate a large amount of money on a regular basis, how would you handle that? Especially if it goes over that 2% of the budgit? Would you tell me that I had to donate to the c6 instead of the c3 because I would hurt the status? |
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I'm not trying to be picky when I ask theese questions, I just want to know how we intend to handle things like this because sooner or later they will come up. |
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I'm also not objecting to seeking a second opinion, I'm just concerned.:) |
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:42:43 -0500 |
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> From: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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> To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] c3 or c6 status |
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> On Thursday 15 July 2004 04:24 pm, Deedra Waters wrote: |
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> > How can that 2% thing be handled? We can't tell our users "oh well you |
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> > can't donate because if you do, you'll cause us to lose our charitable |
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> > status." I don't think that's fare to users to do that...Especially when I |
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> > don't concidder gentoo a charity to start with. Freenode's nfp has to tell |
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> > some of their contributers that now, and believe me, some of them react |
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> > badly to being told that they can't donate. |
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> The 501(c)(3) subsidiary would be a seperate entity that your average user |
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> could use to donate to on a tax exempt basis. That organization would be a |
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> charity in that we would be accepting donations into that organization that |
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> would be used to fuel Gentoo development. This works seperate from the |
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> Gentoo Foundation 501(c)(6) itself, but would most likely be operated by the |
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> same people. It could be used for planned fundraising activities where |
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> donation amounts could be more controlled. This can be far down the road, |
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> I'm not saying they need to both be filed initially. It would just be |
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> another avenue for funding Gentoo development. |
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> Cheers, |
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> -C |
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