[gentoo-nfp] RFC: OSUOSL Fundraiser

[Alec Warner]

Hi,

In our last meeting (the AGM) we briefly discussed giving to the OSL, who
graciously host much of the equipment for Gentoo Foundation Inc at no cost
to us (including space, bandwidth, cooling, and power[0].) We have not
given the OSL money in a few years.

 - $50.00 in 2009
 - $6,000 in 2013
 - Possibly a $2,000 payment in 2017; the board approved this payment but
it's unclear we made it (I sent mail separately to follow up on this.)

The OSL is itself a tax-exempt 501c3 tax-exempt organization. Currently we
are not, so it seems more efficient to just raise money directly to the
OSL. I see 3 options here:

(1) Create a fundraiser page that talks about why we need to raise money
for the OSL and the donate link goes to the OSL donation page.
(2) Create a fundraiser page that talks about why we need to raise money
for the OSL, and the donate link goes to a paypal account that is
specifically for this fundraiser and is time limited (is not our normal
paypal account.)
(3) Create a fundraiser page that talks about why we need to raise money
for the OSL, and the donate link goes to our normal paypal account.

I think (1) is probably 'best' but their donation system seems to only take
credit cards and I suspect many of our users are more familiar with paypal.
The difference between (2) and (3) is mostly a question for the CPA as to
whether, if we do 2 we can avoid paying taxes on these funds (which we are
basically raising on behalf of a tax-exempt organization.) If there is no
clear tax advantage for (2) then we should do (1) or (3).

Thoughts?

-A

[0] In 2017 Robin wrote:
"Gentoo has at OSL:
* a full-height 42U rack, with 2x 15A 120V power circuits.
** 10U is production infra (including VM hosting), full-depth.
** 10U of this is dedicated releng systems, full-depth.
** 13U presently unused.
** 9U (half-depth) is network/power
** 5U+ of half-depth releng systems (shared w/ network-power)
* Access to PowerPC POWER8 releng VMs."