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On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 7:26 AM Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> Nobody knows yet. Different umbrellas work differently. Different CPAs |
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> charge differently and perform different scopes of work. |
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> The Foundation will need to perform a value judgement based on |
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> quotations not beliefs. |
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My understanding is that most of these will either take a percentage |
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of donations for internal operations, or will accept donations |
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separately to fund internal operations, or both. |
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I suspect that the cost will be significantly less simply due to the |
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standardization and volumes involved. Plus most of these are 501c3 so |
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they don't have to pay taxes for most things, and of course US |
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taxpayers can further deduct whatever they do contribute (though with |
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the recent increase in the standard deduction this benefit is going to |
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be much less universal than it was a few years ago). |
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However, I think Gentoo really should think about ways to go a step |
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further and minimize its reliance on owning stuff in the first place. |
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It is nice that we have all these donated hosts and volunteers to |
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maintain them, but as we depend on all this stuff we increase our |
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exposure to harm when somebody threatens to take that stuff away. |
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Distributed technologies like git greatly help to reduce these risks |
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as it makes our data much more portable - it would be nice if at some |
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point somebody came up with something similar for some of our other |
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needs, starting with bugzilla (which is always the first thing that |
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comes up anytime we talk about using a service like Github, and for |
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good reason). |
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Rich |