Good morning, as most of the discussion happened when I slept, I will give a summarizinig answer from the top. (With unusally top-posting against the netiquette)
There are two associations (german: "eingetragener Verein" abbrev. e.V.) - Team OpenOffice.org e.V., based in Hamburg. The members are Sun/Oracle employees and it is handling the marketing budget for the international Openoffice.org marketing. (IBM has already been mentioned as a donator). They fund travel, T-Shirts, Posters, booth fees and so on. (Donations from the mentioned page go to them) - Freies Office Deutchland e.V. (abbrev. FrODeV), whose name was OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. up to spring of this year, based in Wiesbaden. Members are individuals and companies merely from Germany. The association has promoted all around OpenOffice.org in Germany since years by funding as aboven and by organizing own events as a congress for Business and Administration beside community events for QA and general project work. It is also promoting LibreOffice now, therefore the name has been changed. Donators can tell if the donation should be spent for a specific project. Until the TDF is legally founded it is the legal basis for TDF, being contractor for webhosting, lawsuits etc. Volker 2011/6/8 Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>: > I started looking around at the OOo website. > > I'm not sure if now is the time to bring this up, but at > http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html there is a solicitation for > funds via three processes. > > Here's what the page says: > >> Your donation will go directly towards helping this project. Some of the >> ways in which your funds might be used include: >> • Hiring independent developers to work with OpenOffice.org. >> • Paying for participation at trade shows and conferences. >> • Paying for organization and staff at annual OpenOffice.org >> Conference, OOoCon. >> • Marketing banners, collateral, CDs and brochures. >> Please discuss the tax benefits of donating with your accountant. >> You can make a donation to our primary treasury, Team OpenOffice.org, e.V. >> via PayPal or credit card or use bank transfer. >> Or, if you prefer to donate US dolars (USD) via credit card, cheque or money >> order, you can use use Software In the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), and >> simply identify the recipient project, OpenOffice.org, where indicataed in >> the instructions SPI provides: SPI Donations for OpenOffice.org . (SPI does >> not accept PayPal or wire transfers.) >> > > Clearly there ought to be changes to the page and process when/if the podling > happens. This is probably at the ASF Board level... certainly the "hiring > developers" part doesn't fit... > > Regards, > Dave > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Volker Merschmann Member of The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
