If project would work as it should it would proactively paid this fee to the apple and Rene would not have to do this dance with PLC . This points to lack of care and is so embarrassing , There's no point to have this discussion every year nothing chaged. Project still aims to support Mac os and it needs to pay that fee it's impossible to do it without it This behavior and altitude only discourages contribution to the project.
On Oct 10 2024, at 5:39 am, René de Hesselle <dehesselle@icloud.com> wrote:On a related note, I've renewed and payed for the Apple Developer program in May so I canprovide uninterrupted services for the project. I haven't started the reimbursement process yetdue to personal reasons, but when I do, I'll kick it off with a vote. According to what I've justread here, there will be trouble, yes?_______________________________________________Yes. The problem is that it changes to vote to "Do we reimburse Rene, a guy we know and love?" instead of "Do we continue our project's relationship with Apple?". You already made that decision unilaterally. It removes the PLC from making the core decision. Now I think that we would vote to do that, but it's important who makes that decision from a governance perspective.Generally speaking running a non-profit is much more difficult with finances. It isn't a business that can do what it wants with funds. There is a lot of verification and process that has to be associated with it to ensure compliance with the laws. Which are cumbersome, but protect from people using charities as a tax shelter or laundering money through them.Ted
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