Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation

[Gregory John Casamento]

I have been thinking quite seriously about starting a GNUstep Foundation, but
have hesitated since I didn't know how the community would feel about such a
move.

Any GNUstep foundation would need to be:

1) Formed by a group of the maintainers..
2) Have a decision making structure which makes decisions only pertaining to
the Foundation and will not attempt to interfere with the GNUstep project, we
don't want to repeat the mistakes of the GNOME Foundation and start doing
"design by committee".

How would these funds be used?  

1) They could be used to help promote GNUstep: posters, flyers, t-shirts,
whatever..  
2) they could also be used to compensate GNUsteppers part-time, or 
3) used to pay a company to contribute some code.

I would like to know, at this point, what the community thinks of this.

GJC

--- Alex Perez <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Alex Perez wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, MJ Ray wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2004-09-29 16:49:26 +0100 Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > It's possible we could use the FSF to accept donations for us, but I 
> > > > don't 
> > > > think they typically do that except for very specific goals. [...]
> > > > I suppose we could ask though.
> > > 
> > > Can you ask, please? I want to be sure that we're not wasting 
> > > volunteer money and effort incorporating and adminstrating a new 
> > > corporation when an existing one is happy to act as tax-deductible 
> > > treasurer/donation collector for us. I've experience of other umbrella 
> > > corporations which exist for precisely this function, but I realise 
> > > that FSF is a little different. It may be that donors would need to 
> > > state that they wish to fund GNUstep or something like that.
> > 
> > https://agia.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations/
> 
> Sorry for replying to my own posting, but upon further examination, I 
> realized that this is "directed donations" only for a select few projects 
> which the FSF runs itself, not for any GNU Project (such as GNUstep).
> 
> So it's not applicable...
> 
> Alex
> 
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Gregory John Casamento 
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