Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 15 Legal Entity

2014-04-14 Thread Moray Allan
On 2014-04-14 21:24, Richard Hartmann wrote: For completeness sake, registering a Limited in Germany (non-profit or for-profit) requires you to pony up at least 25.000 € in advance. This is why insurance is cheaper. For completeness: presumably one could register a limited company in a more e

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 15 Legal Entity

2014-04-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Moray Allan wrote: > Again, I can believe this is the best version for Germany, but in many > places you could just create a limited-liability company rather than seek > insurance. > For completeness' sake, registering a Limited in Germany (non-profit or for-pro

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf 15 Legal Entity

2014-04-14 Thread Moray Allan
On 2014-04-13 20:10, Margarita Manterola wrote: The trickiest part of creating the association is to have a "purpose" that will be accepted as non-profit by the tax authorities. If we do not attain non-profit status, it would mean that we would need to pay corporate and sales taxes (~ 30 %), and

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:39:01PM -0400, Tássia Camões wrote: > 2014-04-14 13:08 GMT-04:00 Holger Levsen : > > On Montag, 14. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> This field is part of the penta schema primarily for use in roommate > >> assignments, which are done based on sex, not gender. > IM

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 14 avril 2014, 13.39:01 Tássia Camões a écrit : > 2014-04-14 13:08 GMT-04:00 Holger Levsen : > > On Montag, 14. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> This field is part of the penta schema primarily for use in > >> roommate assignments, which are done based on sex, not gender. > > IMHO

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Tássia Camões
2014-04-14 13:08 GMT-04:00 Holger Levsen : > On Montag, 14. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: >> This field is part of the penta schema primarily for use in roommate >> assignments, which are done based on sex, not gender. > IMHO there is no sense in making room allocation based on sex instead of g

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 14. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > This field is part of the penta schema primarily for use in roommate > assignments, which are done based on sex, not gender. I consider this a bug, but I'm tired of "arguing" here. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message p

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:51:33PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > (dropping the dc14 list.) > On Freitag, 11. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to capture the current state of the > > requirements in the wiki: > > https://wiki.debconf.org/action/edit/DebC

Re: [Debconf-team] registration metadata

2014-04-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (dropping the dc14 list.) On Freitag, 11. April 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to capture the current state of the > requirements in the wiki: > > https://wiki.debconf.org/action/edit/DebConf14/Registration please change "sex" to "gender" there and why