On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Ted Gould wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:40:30 -0500 (EST) From: Ted Gould <ted@...10...> Reply-To: Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> Cc: inkscape-devel@...84..., Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] did you get donation?
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Also, I just received word today from the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/) that they have accepted Inkscape's application to join them.
This means that once the paperwork is done, donations to Inkscape will henceforth be tax-deductable, and Inkscape will exist as a legal, non-profit entity. More info about this is available here:
That's great. I had kinda looked into doing this on our own, and it was well, more difficult than I wanted.
In case anyone is interested The GNU Image Manipulation Program investigated setting up as their own non-profit but in the end did some thing similar to this Conversevancy group through the GNOME Foundation. This group does seem well setup to take donations for lots of smaller subgroups and I dont think the Foundation is actively looking to manage finance for lots and lots of smaller subgroups. I see Wine is already signed up and all it all looks fairly good.