From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC05F138359 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2020 16:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8494AE0AB1; Sat, 4 Jul 2020 16:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 269B0E0AAB for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2020 16:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:33:16 +0300 From: Andrew Savchenko To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Council candidates: Future of the Foundation Message-Id: <20200704193316.ae2d3f0fd3908036301c10c5@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA512"; boundary="Signature=_Sat__4_Jul_2020_19_33_16_+0300_SaiI939YLkgMkc7f" X-Archives-Salt: a624ac27-f9aa-404b-ad37-34932d5caccb X-Archives-Hash: a25cab88265e689898bec049ef16b138 --Signature=_Sat__4_Jul_2020_19_33_16_+0300_SaiI939YLkgMkc7f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:58:44 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:27 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote: [...] > IMO 501c3 is more in keeping with our community-based tone, but I > started caring a lot less about this after the recent US tax changes > which makes this status almost irrelevant to anybody who isn't a > fairly large donor (the benefit applies if you cumulatively donate to > a lot of orgs in general - not just a large donation to one org). I'm > not sure that 501c6 really reflects where we want to be, but it might > save us some tax dollars. I'd be interested in just how much it would > actually save us though - it might make sense to just be a regular > corp from an IRS standpoint (which is very little red tape if you pay > your taxes, and it results in almost no restrictions on what you can > do - corporations are people too after all...). This is one more aspect to this: some companies double donations for 501c3 organizations. A friend of mine works in a large corporation with HQ is the US and told me that his employer doubles any donations made to 501c3, so he made no donation for Gentoo, because that will mean loosing money for community which otherwise can be doubled. So it is likely that 501c3 will increase incoming donations. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko --Signature=_Sat__4_Jul_2020_19_33_16_+0300_SaiI939YLkgMkc7f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE63ZIHsdeM+1XgNer9lNaM7oe5I0FAl8Ar0wACgkQ9lNaM7oe 5I0XnA//df4KmkJeykPUgs5KHTKU1HK/6jvPHmxO4NqiA6a2BxsP0kVxTVUqXrS0 m2/nCd6/LMBNvVdlFAgDCMwCGaHx0FA0IdaAkbd2CoCgfv6vHiKJ3ex/3dYGRX/h DqhvXHIw0CWi77S6QsKvcU57xMd/uSafPvaEWLifY75YT1CTb/H4ej7r1evUhWUc u31n8dd9UEVwOUEDO1dpT0npYotdSKj72R8DzeOnQI8jhdkvsZrpcrKA/g1h/gi2 U5poRP9lOX0/9JOg17D/P7dkY42QHKEgkRziq0J7o1eLCHLpvr+l14CBqj3dQUty tboWIKhN/HIltpCOgZpRERwR0jcuOgfHTDIGC1EHuNGYKl2X5cGkgkJKeOddr7By Vi/hBnbltMMJthdttF5dJaHDu1VfrccucwbVikDQOUKpkOVYcfruYM0vRuMnIx7j ou5ZuYehLvrK/8y1CacPlCRUISpNvlaODrKCPH50c/3k7YUzK2byUaVyoY6p5QSh tlKIKCPEsWlyjZe/GautI8uKThBdv7XxHCN63+7rNtYSwnMr4qB5IKX7fxIQqVyx 8j4WckFn+ZLwvWChrSxZ8qCIQLnFTme/Gd07C6dTbes8kdEermw5gEwJGek5MsTz SnxW0HRsSDfCUviVjbqGr3MSAZbuLazT0iPN25g1KU4uLVqdFVI= =9Qmm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sat__4_Jul_2020_19_33_16_+0300_SaiI939YLkgMkc7f--