<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Just a side note, the difference between 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) are:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits differ when it comes to deductions available to individuals and businesses that donate to the organization. Donations to a 501(c)(3) are entirely deductible as a charitable contribution on the donor's tax return. In contrast, donations made to a 501(c)(4) are generally not deductible.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">Additionally, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; widows: 1;">501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) differ in their ability to freely conduct political or lobbying efforts. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; widows: 1;">501(c)(3) nonprofits are limited to conducting only "insubstantial" lobbying efforts, determined by the size of the organization.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; widows: 1;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; widows: 1;">By contrast, 501(c)(4) organizations may engage in unlimited lobbying and promotion of candidates, provided that these efforts dovetail with the purpose of the organization.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; widows: 1;"><br></span></div><div><span style="widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The main reason we went with 501(c)(4) is that the IRS was heavily restricting software organizations from being 501(c)(3) (even though that made more sense in our case), due to IRS thinking that software for profit companies were creating non profits to hold software IP and code and then able to stash money as tax exempt donations. Since we never have accepted tax exempt donations, it was a much simpler process to being a 501(c)(4) vs perhaps never being approved as a (c)(3). </span></span></div><div><span style="widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 253);">Mike</span></span></div><div><span style="widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 253);"><br></span></span></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">----</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Michael Smith</span></font></font></div><div><div>OSGeo Foundation Treasurer</div><div><a href="mailto:treasurer@osgeo.org">treasurer@osgeo.org</a></div></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> <<a href="mailto:board-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">board-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> on behalf of Jachym Cepicky <<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, September 21, 2015 at 4:50 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Massimiliano Cannata <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>>, OSGeo Board <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Board] minutes and motions for 2015-09-19 (Seoul)<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>thank you, Massi, for great minutes<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">so 19. 9. 2015 v 16:19 odesílatel Massimiliano Cannata <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>> napsal:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello,</div><div>here are the meeting minutes and motions from <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-09-19" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-09-19</a></div><div><br></div><div>Board member please reply to this mail with your vote for the motions.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Motions:</b></div><ol><li>Approve past meeting's minutes<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><ol><li>Create a new official Paypal account for OSGeo (and transfer the money from the old account)<br></li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><ol><li>OSGeo contact Web page: remove the form from the page and include the list of e-mails (board address, president, tresurer, discussion list, project mailing lists, etc..)<br></li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> +1</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><ol><li>Use Google infrastructure for mails and drive space<br></li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 </div><div> </div><div>note: original discussion was about "having private space", than we moved to mail as well.</div><div><br></div><div>I think, "outsourcing" makes simply sense in our case. we should use volunteers for the work, we can not handle by ourselves.</div><div><br></div><div>little research: google supports only <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">US 501(c)(3) organisations. while we are </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">US 501(c)(4)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"> (I have no idea what difference that is, but result is: we will have to pay)</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">J</span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><ol><li><b>Other items:</b><br></li></ol></div><div><div><ul><li>Approved last minute<br></li><li>Tresurer report: ~57k USD seed money transferred, extension for tax filling<br></li><li>Paypal account, need make a new account and transfer money from old to new<br></li><li>Rasdaman: on OpenHub errouneously it is owned by osgeo, request to change it immediately. Jeff corrected it and apologize for the error.<br></li><li>New board members require information to quickly get involved and active<br></li><li>Election, charter members shall vote to continue with membership, we should cope with this<br></li><li>Next week more details on results of election<br></li><li>Membership process<br></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Actions</b></div><div><ul><li>Mike create Paypal account<br></li><li>Jeff ask Tyler for access details<br></li><li>Jeff talk to CoC to acknowledge that the board think that also ethic misconducts is topic for CoC committee<br></li><li>Vasile: Send info to new board members based on <a href="http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/archives/49-OSGeo-Director-Retrospective.html" target="_blank">http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/archives/49-OSGeo-Director-Retrospective.html</a><br></li><li>New board: examine the election process and consider to adopt a nomination + second letters from other members and no veto to be **selected**, then if veto board could take a decision<br></li></ul></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Maxi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Massimiliano Cannata</b><br><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt">Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt">Responsabile settore Geomatica</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt">Istituto scienze della Terra</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p><p style="margin:0px"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:9pt;color:gray">Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;margin:0px"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12px"><font color="#808080" face="arial,sans-serif">Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;margin:0px"><span style="color: gray; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Campus Trevano, </span><span style="color: gray; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">CH - 6952 Canobbio</span></p><p></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:9pt;color:gray">Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;color:gray">Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt"><a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" target="_blank">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;color:blue"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.supsi.ch/ist" target="_blank">www.supsi.ch/ist</a></span></span></u></p></div></div></div>
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