Hi, A while ago, I talked with some people about the DC13 local organization. There were some interesting things about it, which I thought should be at least mentioned before things go on too far, because otherwise there might be problems later.
First off, DC13.ch plans on having all DC13 money go through it. For example, most years, sponsors pay to etiher SPI or FFIS, and then the money is transferred to wherever it is needed, or used in the hempsiphere for travel sponsorship. It allows transfer of money from continent to continent from year to year. The DC13 plan involves having all money go to DC13.ch, wherever it comes from. [Or: not physically moving the money, but acconting it as DC13.ch assets]. This would subject all money to Swiss financial rules. And this is why VAT was such a concern. I had tried to suggest some of the money not go through DC13.ch, but it seems since DC13.ch is defined as running DebConf13, and Debconf13 is a certain event, that gets legally iffy. ~~~ My personal opinion: This isn't ideal, and if I had realized this before I would have encouraged to seek other options first. For example, define the conference as being run by Debian, and DC13.ch handling just certain local money. However, due to legalities, that may not be possible (?). I am not sure what is possible or not, but, at least it's better to know this now, than in six months... - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - pyke: up 36 days, 15:28 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
