On Wednesday 22 March 2023 06:30:35 Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote: > Hi everyone, > so far donations to the TDE project have always ended up to Tim. Although > he is the founder of the project, he has not really been involved in the > daily matters and development for several years. In the past there has been > talks to establish a non-profit TDE organization, but this has yet to > happen. > > With release R14.1.0 coming soon, I would like to propose for donations to > be temporarily redirected to Slavek, till the TDE non profit organization > is established. Once the organization comes to birth, the amount of > donations can be transferred over to it. > A transparent public account of donations could be setup, so everyone would > be free to see how donations would be used. If Slavek needed to pay > additional taxes due to the temporary donation income, I suggest those > would be paid out of the donations themselves. > > What is your opinion? There is about a month before R14.1.0 is released, so > it would probably leave just enough time to prepare the new setup. > > Cheers > Michele I have been wanting to donate a little money now and then, when I have some extra. I am not an especially charitable person, except for a few special projects, and TDE is one of them, because of course I would like to continue using this desktop. Otherwise, I get frustrated (and usually enraged) after trying to use some other desktop. The problem is, PayPal doesn't seem to like me, and I have never been able to use it for anything, ever, in about 20 years. I would be glad to send a bank draft, or put something on my credit card, and even if it goes into Slavek's own pocket for awhile (until we get this non-profit thing sorted out), I figure that he has worked hard at this for a long time, so it's not a big deal for me. In the long run, though, that would not be a good idea, so we ought to get those details straight. If we get sloppy about these things, it may come back to haunt us later. Every time this question has come up for discussion, though, it ends up unresolved, because we cannot come to a consensus about just where the non-profit ought to be established; meaning, in where? The whole world is going insane (more than usual), and we ought to be careful about where we set up our non-profit, because wherever that is, TDE would be subject to the local laws, tax codes, etc. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
