<div dir="ltr">HI Paolo<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Paolo Cavallini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all.<br>
QGIS is growing noticeably in many respects, and I feel the role of<br>
marketing and financial advisor should be strengthened and improved<br>
accordingly, to intercept more resources to fill up chores nobody wants<br>
to do, and to improve our perceived credibility as partners for larger<br>
institutions and enterprises.<br>
To do so, I believe the basic functioning should be smoother, so it will<br>
be easier to concentrate on the outreach. I'm therefore proposing to:<br>
* automatize the processing of donations (Juergen kindly offered to help<br>
with this - danke!)<br>
* have a formal book keeper, so to have the current situation and the<br>
historical trends ready at hand.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We can help with this - I have a book keeper working for me and I am happy to donate some of her time to maintain books for QGIS. We use an online accounting system so I can give you a log in to that and you can then access the accounts at any time. If you are happy to go this route contact me off list and I will provide you with a login and get things going.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
To do so, I think two steps are sooner or later necessary:<br>
* being a legal entity (NGO-like, I suppose)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. By the way I did speak to world bank following our discussion two PSC meetings ago to see if big funding organisations have any specific opinion about the Swiss non profit that Marco H mentioned (I forget the name of it off hand). She wasnt particularly sure but I get the impression it would be fine.</div>
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* having an individual bank account.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes I think this makes sense too so that you can have direct access to the account. With our bookkeeper, you could just log in say once a month and send her the bank statement, as well as forwarding her any receipts and she can lodge them all in the accounting system.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Obviously, our finances being still small, we must keep costs down for<br>
all the above (also, we want the money to go into code, not into paper,<br>
right?).<br>
I would greatly appreciate your opinions about this. If we agree this is<br>
the right course of action, any suggestions on where to establishing the<br>
NGO and opening a new account (or how to get additional info) would be<br>
precious.<br>
Given that most of our activities (many sponsors, most developers, HFs,<br>
etc.) are in Europe, I suspect this area could be our first choice.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah I think getting our own ?verein? (SWISS non profit) seems a good way to go - besides everyone loves putting their money into a Swiss bank account :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
All the best.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" target="_blank">www.faunalia.eu</a><br>
QGIS & PostGIS courses: <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html" target="_blank">http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html</a><br>
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