From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Looking for ways the Foundation can accomplish its mission.
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:32:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6836b6e-e2ec-1a27-2bc1-fe5e7696c4b8@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAr7Pr952a8Ck3w7DEF3sbDSQ16r3YhjYTmcidZGdiRQr+cvRA@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/06/2018 11:52 AM, Alec Warner wrote:
>
> The foundation is already a not-for-profit organization. Did you perhaps
> mean a *tax-exempt* not for profit, and if so, why do you think we should
> be a tax-exempt nonprofit?
>
For starters, tax-exempt organizations are exempt from paying taxes =)
More seriously, a lot of programs like Amazon Smile require their
participating organizations to be 501(c)(3). Right now I send that money
to the FSF, and Amazon tells me they've made $11,000 over the past few
years via donations.
As for how to spend the money: paying people to fix bugs is unexciting,
but it's probably the idea with the best return on investment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-06 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-06 12:47 [gentoo-project] Looking for ways the Foundation can accomplish its mission Alec Warner
2018-09-06 13:07 ` Raymond Jennings
2018-09-07 0:32 ` Richard Yao
2018-09-07 0:43 ` Richard Yao
2018-09-07 1:01 ` Rich Freeman
2018-09-07 1:47 ` Richard Yao
2018-09-07 2:15 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-09-06 13:14 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-09-06 13:39 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-09-06 13:35 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-09-06 15:52 ` Alec Warner
2018-09-06 20:32 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2018-09-06 20:44 ` Raymond Jennings
2018-09-06 20:44 ` Alec Warner
2018-09-07 2:46 ` Yury German
2018-09-07 3:16 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-09-07 8:44 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-09-06 13:54 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-09-06 15:22 ` Matthew Thode
2018-09-06 15:45 ` Rich Freeman
2018-09-06 16:14 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-09-06 16:31 ` Rich Freeman
2018-09-06 15:52 ` Michał Górny
2018-09-06 16:01 ` Matthew Thode
2018-09-06 18:02 ` Yury German
2018-09-06 18:35 ` Alec Warner
2018-09-06 19:32 ` Matthew Thode
2018-09-06 18:37 ` Rich Freeman
2018-09-06 19:34 ` Matthew Thode
2018-09-06 17:51 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-09-06 20:28 ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-09-06 20:47 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-09-07 13:31 ` Rich Freeman
2018-09-07 14:07 ` Richard Yao
2018-09-07 14:10 ` Richard Yao
2018-09-07 14:22 ` Richard Yao
2018-09-07 13:11 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-09-07 13:20 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-09-07 13:42 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-09-07 13:24 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-09-07 13:41 ` Andreas K. Huettel
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