[Texmacs-dev] Re: [TeXmacs] Better system for donations

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:18:16PM +0100, Javier Arantegui wrote:
> El Viernes, 16 de Diciembre de 2005 13:05, Yordan Kyosev escribió:
> > is it clear, if exists such international association ?
> 
> One possibility is:
> Organisation for Free Software in Education and Teaching
> http://www.ofset.org/about
> 
> The organisation is based in France. So, maybe, it would be a good idea to 
> contact them.

I am member of this organization, but it is oriented to education,
as its name indicates. Of course, one might try to see whether the scope
of Ofset could be broadened (Hilaire Fernandez and founder is in the CC),
but that seems not completely trivial to me. In particular, we would have
to examine the "statuts" of Ofset. But maybe Hilaire has more ideas about this.

> Probably Joris wants some control, especially with donations. I think that 
> this would be easier when you are in control because there are less steps 
> between you and the donnor.

Yes, I think that the main initial reason for creating such an association
is to make it easier to find non-academic funding for the development of
free scientific software. Constitutive projects of the association (starting
with TeXmacs) should have an easy control over the money donated to them
(and money earned in other ways: selling software, books, T-shirts, etc.).

Best wishes, Joris