Re: Becoming a legal entity and accepting donations

2021-05-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 17, 2021, at 06:13, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 10:39, Ruben Di Battista wrote: >> >> Just as a side note, here in France I just created a non-profit association >> for a project I'm working on related to the organization of an event, and >> the process is almost free

Re: Becoming a legal entity and accepting donations (was: Re: Buildbot Performance)

2021-05-17 Thread Mark Anderson
a > name with some pull, and Amazon has deep pockets. Couldn't hurt to ask? > > Cheers, > Andrew > > On 5/17/21 8:22 PM, Mark Anderson wrote: > > Yeah, I was thinking of the US as well, and I meant non-profit, which > doesn't have tax deductible donations but is as

Re: Becoming a legal entity and accepting donations (was: Re: Buildbot Performance)

2021-05-17 Thread Andrew Janke
he problem is there is a lot of work around becoming a legal > entity and accepting donations or whatever. I honestly have no idea > how much work exactly - but certainly not zero. I have no idea how > non-US entities work. > > —Mark > ___ > Mark E. Anders

Re: Becoming a legal entity and accepting donations (was: Re: Buildbot Performance)

2021-05-17 Thread Mark Anderson
Yeah, I was thinking of the US as well, and I meant non-profit, which doesn't have tax deductible donations but is assumed to not make money. The problem is there is a lot of work around becoming a legal entity and accepting donations or whatever. I honestly have no idea how much work ex

Re: Becoming a legal entity and accepting donations (was: Re: Buildbot Performance)

2021-05-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 10:39, Ruben Di Battista wrote: > > Just as a side note, here in France I just created a non-profit association > for a project I'm working on related to the organization of an event, and the > process is almost free and reasonably fast. In a matter of few weeks we had > t

Re: Becoming a legal entity and accepting donations (was: Re: Buildbot Performance)

2021-05-17 Thread Ruben Di Battista
Just as a side note, here in France I just created a non-profit association for a project I'm working on related to the organization of an event, and the process is almost free and reasonably fast. In a matter of few weeks we had the association published on the official governmental gazette and a

Re: Becoming a legal entity and accepting donations (was: Re: Buildbot Performance)

2021-05-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 16, 2021, at 14:46, Mark Anderson wrote: > I keep wondering if we became like a not-for-profit If we could get someone > like MacStadium or Amazon or something to donate server time to us. Or accept > donations from Github sponsorship. I could look into what that would take, > although i