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

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Frank, Markus,
this sounds reasonable and I support it.

But I did feel uncomfortable when I first read that we were going to
drop the project sponsorship program because of a weird US tax org
snag. With Frank's explanation and Markus comments it goes down a lot
better. What we should learn from this is that we must communicate
this kind of information more actively.

Maybe this is a new task for our reborn Outreach committee? I'd be
happy to pick up these things and post them through regular community
channels.

What do you think?

Cheers,
7

On 11/30/2012 07:04 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 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,
> 
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