To do it right means incorporating as a 501(c)(3) corporation. Officers, forms, annual fees and filings. Then donations are tax-deductible. The other method is, I suppose, is skip all that, create a PayPal account, and see what happens. I would guess Phil / Netroedge may have trouble with #2. I don't hear any volunteers to do #1. "Mark D. Studebaker" wrote: > > A little optimistic that the donation will be laptop-sized... > IANAL but seems like we can figure out or finesse the tax issue > without getting carried away. Perhaps we can research... > Cash is king, let's figure out how to accept it... > > phil at netroedge.com wrote: > > > > Well, as long as we know how to deal with the tax issues on it, why > > not? We could definitely use a Thinkpad or one of these > > Intellistations to play with. In fact, if this person is donating > > something on the order of the cost of a Thinkpad, perhaps he can just > > buy us one instead of handing us cash? Also, we could still use a > > server to put the lm-sensors site/cvs on (1 or 2u rack-mount server > > would be ideal). > > > > Not that we have overwhelming requests for a list of items to donate, > > but it might be helpful to put a list of wanted items on the web site? > > > > Phil > > > > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:30:03AM -0400, Mark Studebaker wrote: > > > believe it or not somebody wants to give us money. > > > Should we accept, if so how? > > > Should we set up a paypal acct? > > > What would we do with money? > > > Did you see at http://lwn.net that they announced they > > > were shutting down their site and they got $25K donations > > > in the next week !!! Sheesh. > > > From: s <srlinuxx at bellsouth.net> > > > To: "Mark D. Studebaker" <mds at paradyne.com> > > > Subject: Re: request > > > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:49:30 -0500 > > > User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 > > > In-Reply-To: <3D23A20D.1BFF0A75 at paradyne.com> > > > > > > Dear Mark, > > > As stated previously I would love to make a small donation to your > > > cause but could not find any links from your site. Where might one > > > send monitary donations to the lm_sensors project? > > > > > > thanks, > > > -srlinuxx > > > > > > On Wednesday 03 July 2002 08:17 pm, you wrote: > > > > what do you need? What southbridge do you have - is it the VT8233A > > > > or something else? > > > > Do you have the VT1211 Super I/O? that's supported in CVS too. > > > > Let us know. > > > > mds > > > > > > > > ? wrote: > > > > > Hi, I have been enjoying your lm_sensors for a couple of years I > > > > > guess it's been on an i815 mobo (and similar). But I am going > > > > > amd, and would soo much appreciate support for the Via > > > > > VT8367(KT333). I see where the VT8233A southbridge is recognized > > > > > in cvs so I'm hoping for continued developement of that too. > > > > > > > > > > I would so much love to help with developement, but alas know > > > > > just enough to utilize other's work. Of course I'd be first in > > > > > line to test and I also wouldn't mind supporting your project > > > > > with a donation. > > > > > > > > > > I hope to have the opportunity to continue enjoying lm_sensors or > > > > > helping you out in some way. > > > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > -?rlinuxx > > > > > > > -- > > Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR > > phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil > > PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A
