In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote: [clip] > > In any case, whether we call it contributions or payments, the bottom line > is, we need a place to send money for the project. The ability to do this > is a pre-depends on any other scheme for financing the project. Doesn't > the project have enough legal status to open a checking account? What do > we need to do to get to that point?
In most states, you have to file for at least a DBA, and be able to take that to the bank to open a commercial account. THe only problem with that is the suck more out of a commercial account than a personal one.. And who is going to document where the money goes? I personally don't care abotu the details, but *someone* is going to demand an accounting someday. I think Bruce has enough to do right now.. > P.S. Just another point. If we had a place to deposit money, any future > montary problems could be solved by "small" donations from the developers. > I'd certainly send in $10 to help finance the project through any tough > times. If the rest of the group feels as I do this would yield $1600 > dollars in one fell swoop. This wouldn't get very many people to trade > shows, but it would provide funds for advertising and other promotional > material. I'd gladly personally send $10-$20 now, and have our fledgling ISP send in $50-100, because we're running Debian.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "You cannot paint the 'Mona Lisa' by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters." -- William F. Buckley, Jr. ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
