[ZOO-PSC] Next PSC Meeting on 20th October 2010

[Gérald Fenoy]

Hi PSC members,
I wonder if that is realistic to speak about PayPal account or any way to get funds paid by companies which want to sponsor the ZOO-Project.

Indeed, as we said during the previous PSC Meeting we need to open a bank account to be able to get money from sponsor companies. So yesterday morning I went to the local HSBC agency to open a bank account. Obviously the woman which welcomed me asked me some details about the Open Source project and she explained then that we have to open a French Association (following the law 1901). I wanted to open a bank account even using my own name, but she told me that it won't work. So I decided to open a PayPal account using the payments at zoo-project.org mail address and using my own name and my own credit card.

So to give a brief overview about solution which are in front of us to get money stored somewhere we can use one of the following solutions :
 1) using the PayPal account (the good point is that it is already available and working)
 2) creating an association law 1901 then waiting for creating an account (I really wonder how we can do that)
 3) creating a personal bank account (using my name or whoever wants to be linked to the bank account) to store money in

I think that solution 1 and 3 can be done but then if we use solution 3 rather than 1 then we won't have a direct payment api which we can use on our site (there is probably other solutions somewhere but I don't know them, so if you get the info, let me know).

Finally I really think that using the paypal system can simplify things a lot, then if some sponsors have trouble using the PayPal system we can always find another way to make bank transfert (the new sponsor company will pay somebody which will then pay back using the paypal mechanisms).

So I would like to ask for a vote here, can you please take time to vote for one of the three solutions provided in this mail and give your thoughts about this mail if any ?

Hope to hear from you,
Best regards, 

Le 1 oct. 2010 à 09:17, nicolas bozon a écrit :

> Dear all,
> 
> Thanks venka for setting up next meeting
> I just added some items in the agenda:
> http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/PSC/meetings/PSCMeet7
> Please PSC add or modify items
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nick
> 
> 2010/10/1 Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
> Hi All,
> 
> It was nice to meet f2f at Barcelona.
> As a result of having a good f2f, there
> was no call for PSC meeting in September
> 2010.
> 
> The next meeting is scheduled at
> 
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=10&day=20&hour=13&min=0&sec=0
> 
> The meeting page is at
> http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/PSC/meetings/PSCMeet7
> 
> Please add the agenda.
> 
> One year has passed since the ZOO-Project was officially started.
> At the time of initiation, sponsorship was offered to companies
> as gratis for a period of one year starting from October 1st
> 2009 till September 30 2010. The period is now over and we
> now need to decide the sponsorship scheme. Some companies have kindly
> agreed to continue as paid sponsors for the period between Oct 1 2010
> till 30 September 2011.
> 
> I suggest three sponsorship levels as below
> 
> a) Bronze sponsor: 500Euro
> b) Silver sponsor: 1000Euro
> c) Gold sponsor: 2000Euro
> 
> We have to decide the how the sponsorship funds will be used,
> but I think it is basically for maintaining ZOO-Project website,
> ZOO-Project promotions and funding some of ZOO development.
> 
> I would like to have your opinion about the sponsorship
> program as soon as possible and it will be nice to decide
> before or during the next PSC meeting so that we can inform
> potential sponsors and past sponsors at an early date.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Venka
> 
> 
> Gérald Fenoy wrote:
> > Thanks for the correction Nick and sorry for this big mistake.
> >
> > djay
> >
> > Le 14 sept. 2010 à 19:49, nicolas bozon a écrit :
> >
> >> Thanks Gerald for this summary of last PSC meeting,
> >>
> >> In 1) Welcome on board Maria !
> >> In 5), I agree that standard sponsoring should be 1000$ and that premium sponsoring could be setup at 2000/3000$
> >> in 7), You forgot to speak about GRASS community interaction
> >>
> >> Thanks again for th emeeting summuray
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Nick
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