[scribus-dev] I think it's time

[Craig Bradney]

On 10/10/11 6:49 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2011/10/10 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com <mailto:alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>>
> 
>     On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 
>     > If there is no way to set up some nonprofit entity, then set up a simple
>     > corporation, in a country where taxes and filings of various documents are
>     > minimal. A European nonprofit status is of no help to someone in the US
>     > wanting to have a tax-exempt donation, but doesn't mean that they would not
>     > consider donating anyway.
> 
>     At a risk of being attacked for not understanding the project or not
>     following IRC or whatever I'd like to point out that you absolutely
>     don't need any of the above. There are companies like Software Freedom
>     Conservancy who will push the papers and manage the funds for you. We
>     (Inkscape) already work with them.
> 
>     SFC in particular accepts donations via PayPal, Google Checkout and
>     wire transfers. I don't know if they can take more projects at this
>     time, but I can certainly find out.
> 
> 
> I second that strongly. If down the road the Scribus team wants to go on its own with a legal entity
> only entitled to Scribus, whenever that can happen, the money already gathered through will only
> have to be transferred from SFC to that new entity, when it's ready. Like Greg puts it, I think it's
> time too.
> 
> The other possibility would be to use the AQDPLL which we use already for LGM and for OIF subsidies
> but if this is going to happen, I would need to consider to have some staff to give a hand only
> because being at the head of a small business I have currently not much time to deal with even light
> admin tasks for a non-profit. For Scribus, I would really suggest we go the SFC way, if this turns
> out to be possible.
> 
> Let's do that.


Actually, Christoph tried in Germany and got stuck a myre of legal rubbish. Spent a long time on it
until his accident. Put simply, we are all too far apart to be able to put in a concerted efforted
separately when someone's efforts fail for whatever reason.

Peter is moving back to the US - maybe he can set up a NFP there.

However, Greg - 1 country != 1 world.. a US NFP doesn't solve the Scribus world's problems. An EU
one would be useful to have too.

Anyway... Peter, is this something you can do quickly? OR is it going to take 6 months. We
definitely need it. If Alexandre's idea must step in initially, maybe that is worth considering.

Craig