[Board] IRS 501c3 Requirement: Dropping the Project Sponsorship program

[Markus Neteler]

Frank,

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Markus,
>
> I would suggest a few alternatives:
>
> 1) Route money through other organizations - such as local chapters or
> individuals.  Already done by some groups.

yes, to some extend we do that through the GFOSS.it in Italy, but they can
then only use the money within Italy.

> 2) Direct sponsorship of events.

Good point.

> 3) Paid work through consultants.

Yes, we do that a lot.

> 4) Encourage folks to become direct OSGeo sponsors, and then we can direct
> funds for some sorts of efforts to project activities (like hackfests).

Ok, that sounds very good.

> While Daniel has expressed this as dropping the project sponsorship program,
> I still like to think of it as suspending the program with the possibility
> of re-instating it with terms more acceptable to the IRS.  Perhaps this
> would mean more restricted things money can be spent on or stronger limits
> on sponsors influencing how the money is spent.

OK, fine.

Best regards,

Markus