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 CAA21138359 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2020 21:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C856BE0968; Mon, 6 Jul 2020 21:11:23 +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 A2C05E0963 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2020 21:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:11:18 -0400 From: Aaron Bauman To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Council candidates: Future of the Foundation Message-ID: <20200706211118.GA107534@bubba> References: <20200704193316.ae2d3f0fd3908036301c10c5@gentoo.org> <6DDF9C97-2168-4E61-BD8A-89D16EBDB947@gentoo.org> 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; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 5d337813-a4b7-43a0-9a85-0af765e67474 X-Archives-Hash: 1cf27f5c23cc8dcd414635d322753268 --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 12:30:04PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 8:20 PM Aaron Bauman wrote: >=20 > > > > > > On July 4, 2020 8:57:33 PM EDT, Alec Warner wrote: > > >On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 2:44 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:33 PM Andrew Savchenko > > >> wrote: > > >> > > > >> > 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. > > >> > > >> That is a really good point and I'll expand on this. > > >> > > >> Some organizations will only donate money to 501c3 organizations. > > >> Basically they're letting the IRS do the due diligence around whether > > >> the organization is actually charitable. They can potentially also > > >> receive tax benefits this way. > > >> > > >> If you want to receive grants/donations from other 501c3 > > >organizations > > >> you will be far more likely to get them if you are yourself a 501c3 > > >> organization. These transactions receive far less scrutiny than > > >> transfers from 501c3s to other types of corporations. > > >> > > > >=20 > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/106055a4c7b58694172f39= 2e0279ec47 >=20 > -A Seems folks had ideas, but you (really we/Trustees) did not respond. Of course, it also seems many tried to divert the idea of spending any money without consulting Robin as the lead for finanances. For the record, Robin calcualted (IMHO, very well) what we could spend and what we couldn't. So, for those following this mail, please know that due diligence is completed before any funds are appropriated. Then and now. --=20 Cheers, Aaron --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEDA48qNrrn8VVVcst4yp5f7HQy3AFAl8Dk3YACgkQ4yp5f7HQ y3ApEwf/YJhDrJo4/5xKG3/lBYvSHBuHYx+emYd2R3ht7//uJJykwgiEDNizJN2G fM5wMCB6vAbx910IHqQI3yxPu+G2SvvIrIauV9dC5MbT7AtmdgKcDg8yl79DpamM ngb91gJr0s0TH/OcNczyEBYGrlqBql0G5tczp6JOWLh1W6qj405WWvs7pU6HVOOy WRWyILGL7jknHkUhmupbgwo9OjOKluiiW/aeGHm7quffH4TPveB9PNwKy0SRP40s pD9nKHsVGedrbxaCp1J2OmLk0s1Fk5yDvQx17XqK7NsZM8n3AHc1uIh/lfLKBiDT IBkt0314JXxQx7VzWzQj1B82srv6dw== =hNlO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx--