Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:39:45PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > This should refer to another text listing the vetted organizations. > One outside the constitution so it can be changed as needed. That's usually bad practice in a constitution. You want to change the constitution if the Debia

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 03:35:26PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hello Wouter, > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:45 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Perhaps a formulation like > > > > Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any > > monetary donations for the Debian Project mu

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:27:04AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Perhaps a formulation like > > > > Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any > > monetary donations for the Debian Project must be made to an > > organization that has

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Just for clarity, I'm not going to support maintaining a list as part of > the constitution; such a list should be outside of it. Notice that there was a precedent, in the list of fundation documents, which is separate from the con

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:31:43AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Just for clarity, I'm not going to support maintaining a list as part of > > the constitution; such a list should be outside of it. > > Notice that there was a preced

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:31:28AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: [...] > After all, you don't need such an organization in _every_ > country; there are a number of countries that have treaties which make > monetary transactions between them cheap (e.g., the EU). s/EU/countries using the euro/ but

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:40:39PM +0100, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:31:28AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > [...] > > After all, you don't need such an organization in _every_ > > country; there are a number of countries that have treaties which make > > monetary transac

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, How about simplifying the strictures in the constitution to something like this: ] Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any ] monetary donations for the Debian Project must be made to any ] one of a set of organizations designated by the DPL to b

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:40:39PM +0100, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:31:28AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > [...] > > After all, you don't need such an organization in _every_ > > country; there are a number of countries that have treaties which make > > monetary transac

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 11 Jun 2006, Martin Wuertele stated: ] Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any ] donations for the Debian Project must be made to any ] one of a set of organizations designated by the Project leader } or a delegate to be authorized to handle such thi

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The point of the exercise is to avoid having so many organizations and > so many bank accounts that we would need three professional accountants > just to keep track. Perhaps I should have worded it as 'no more than one > such organization shall be active per country'; [...

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Why not just trust the DPL to be reasonable? The language is them > much simpler, too. Just to even avoid having to have a reasonable DPL,[1] we could also require that changes to the list of organisations that are authorized to hold Debian's assets