[drupal-devel] Re: Drupal foundation

[Ross Kendall]

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:
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>>>>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)
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>>>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...
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>>+1 for EU based foundation - the laws in Europe are generally very
>>friendly to non-for profit foundations (AFAIK)
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>In principle yes, however...
>For example I do not know if there is such a thing as a cross-EU
>foundation possible.
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>>I am not sure of the status and the legalities in UK but can do some
>>research on that.
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>Belgium would be the natural place for such a foundation I guess.
>But I agree that reasearch needs to be done before anything else.
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>>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...
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>>If anyone has experience running such a thing it's fine, but
>>it might take over somebody's life. Any volunteers ? :)
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>I had my reasons not to recommend .de. ;)
>We should investigate how much time and effort is needed by other
>similar foundations.
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>BTW: I do not see this EU-Drupal foundation idea as exclusive to teaming
>up with the SPI initiative.
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>Cheers,
>	Gerhard
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