Hi Gaudenz Steinlin <gaud...@debian.org> writes:
> Hi Richard > > Richard Darst <r...@zgib.net> writes: > >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:45:35AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> >>> I disagree with this, as I've observed in the past. For one thing, it >>> doesn't seem to me that it is *that* easy to create this association. >>> One argument is that, if it were so, it'd have already existed by now, >>> no? (But if the counter-argument to that is "we wanted to have an >>> explicit ack before proceeding", fine.) >> >> FWIW, I haven't been too active but I have been paying attention. >> Local team has well done their due, listened to disadvantages >> presented, and at least I agree now that an association is a >> reasonable thing to do. Hopefully other people from the team can >> weigh in on if that was decided or not. > > Thanks. > >> >> >> Aside for local team: will you be wanting non-swiss sponsors to pay >> directly to dc13 organization, or go through SPI/FFIS/other >> organizations like usual? (... related tax, financial >> implications...) > > This is not yet decided. I think for EU sponsors going through FFIS does > not make much sense as transactions to Switzerland are free of charge. > We can just open an account in EUR in Switzerland for these > transactions. It was pointed out to me that this is not entirely correct. It seems that transactions to Switzerland are not free of charge in all cases (for the sender). The problem (AFAIUI) is that while technically the transactions work the same as inside the EU (SEPA transaction), the EU law that says that transactions inside the EU are not allowed to be more expensive than transactions inside each country, is not applicable to Switzerland. This leads to the situation that fees vary between different banks. Some charge for it (from what I've heard up to 20€), others do it for free (at least if the transaction is done in EUR). We should get more information about this before deciding about the procedure. If the fees are really not more than 20€ even for bigger amounts, then I don't think it matters much for the usual amount I expect from sponsors. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
