Re: GNOME Deutchland e.V. [Was: Re: European bank account for donations]

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Fri, March 9, 2012 7:30 am, Chris Kühl wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Dave Neary <dneary free fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> GNOME has at least 3 sister organisations, with bank accounts, in the
>> EU: GNOME Hispanic, GNOME-fr and GNOME Deutschland eV.
>>
>> Why not create some kind of official relationship with one or more of
>> them?

I've looked into this in other contexts and always came up against the
unknown tax consequences blocker - anyone know a tax lawyer in these
countries who would maybe do some pro bono work for us? (All the lawyers I
know in the free software world are copyright lawyers and such, and I've
never gotten a great lead on an affordable or pro bono tax lawyer.)

>>
>
> Looking at the GNOME Deutschland e.V. website[1], I wouldn't consider
> it a likely candidate for such a relationship and the writing on that
> page doesn't seem likes it's always in GNOME's best interest. It
> states that the site is run by an individual and has no connection
> with GNOME e.V. Does the GNOME e.V. even exist any longer? There's
> probably a backstory to this I'm not aware of.

A very interesting question - I'd love to know more about this.

karen