Interestingly... Typo3 have just recently launched an 'association': http://typo3.org/community/typo3-association/faq/ which has also served to increase their profile quite a lot. Note the entry for Kasper on CMSWatch (top 20 people in CMS to watch): http://www.cmswatch.com/Features/PeopleWatch/FeaturedPeople/?feature_id=121 "Oftentimes, serious open-source projects find a need to coalesce around some sort of institutional body. We think it's a measure of project maturity..." There are definately things to be learned from the way other people have done things. This kind of thing - however - is much bigger that just 'how to manage Google ad revenue'. Ross. Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Vladimir Zlatanov wrote:
So for a generic account we might we might have to setup a drupal foundation that wont have to pay taxes. This was discussed some time ago on this list but I dont remember the outcome of this. Anyone? (put response please in thread on site)
Unfortunately, this has not been discussed in Antwerp. Should we set up an IRC meeting to discuss this further? I think the foundation should be EU-based. I cannot recommend Germany as a good place for something like this...
+1 for EU based foundation - the laws in Europe are generally very friendly to non-for profit foundations (AFAIK)
In principle yes, however... For example I do not know if there is such a thing as a cross-EU foundation possible.
I am not sure of the status and the legalities in UK but can do some research on that.
Belgium would be the natural place for such a foundation I guess. But I agree that reasearch needs to be done before anything else.
What I suggest is let's take the facts in and decide on that basis - what will be the maintenance, administration involved, taxes, benefits, ease of access, etc...
If anyone has experience running such a thing it's fine, but it might take over somebody's life. Any volunteers ? :)
I had my reasons not to recommend .de. ;) We should investigate how much time and effort is needed by other similar foundations.
BTW: I do not see this EU-Drupal foundation idea as exclusive to teaming up with the SPI initiative.
Cheers, Gerhard