[Board] Legal Entities for OSGeo

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Cameron,

I'm not sure I understand this part of your response:

On 12-11-13 3:17 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> For purposes such as fund raising, I think we should be working with
> sister organisations, be they an OSGeo local chapter, LocationTech, OGC,
> or something else.
>

Fund raising, i.e. donations are acceptable for a 501c3 nonprofit. It is 
also okay to have a "thank you" page on our website to thank our donors 
and showing their logos.

What is not acceptable is advertizement for our sponsors, i.e. any kind 
of marketing talk/ads posted on behalf of the sponsors in our website or 
conference program. Advertizement is bad, thank-you-logos are acceptable.

For this reason I believe all our existing fund raising activities (i.e. 
foundation sponsors) are fine, they may just need a bit or terminology 
changes. Being able to deal with money is the main benefit of getting a 
legal status, so if we have to go through sister organizations for fund 
raising as you suggest then that defeats the point of getting a legal 
status in the first place.


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