[Board] OSGeo vs 501c3 status - inpur required

[Daniel Morissette]

Board,

Maybe my mail from yesterday was too long and you missed the question 
targeted at you. So just in case here it comes again, and please let me 
know what your preference is if you have one, or if you don't know then 
it's okay to say so, but at least acknowledge that you read this email.

Our deadline to respond to the IRS is next week. I'll try to get another 
extension from them, but we need to make a decision on which way we go 
soon in order to craft a response.

So the question we need to ask ourselves now is:

"Do we want to maintain the project sponsorship program and setup a 
taxable subsidiary for it, or do we drop the project sponsorship program 
completely?"

I think the taxable subsidiary is manageable, but to justify it, we'd 
need to put more efforts in the project sponsorship program since at 
this time it is mostly dormant. (OpenLayers and GRASS are interested but 
I've kept them on hold, and GDAL is... well, quiet)


Unless I hear back from other board members with a strong position one 
way or the other, I am planning to continue trying to qualify as a 501c3 
foundation with a taxable subsidiary for the project sponsorship program 
and whatever other taxable activity we may have in the future.


Daniel