Re: KDE U.S. NPO
heathmatlock <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Claudia Rauch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 March 2012 14:01, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:45, Jeff Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The Board and Claudia and I have been working on this with the SFC for >>> probably about 2 years now. We've been wanting to go with the SFC >>> because it's actually extremely difficult to run a legitimate non-profit >>> according to IRS rules given tight restrictions on funding sources/types >>> -- not to mention mountains of paperwork and required in-person meetings. >>> >>> For a while things were held up because we wanted to do things a certain >>> way and the SFC was debating how to support that (basically, make the >>> U.S. entity subordinate to the e.V.). When we decided to drop that >>> requirement things theoretically got easier, except then the SFC was >>> having issues because they were in the process of trying to work out >>> changes to their funding model. >>> >>> Claudia was, I think, the last person to talk to Brad Kuhn (SFC guy) >>> about this. Claudia, do you have any status information? >> >> I think that was at FOSDEM. I was there too. I only quickly talked >> with Brad and the info I took home was that the SFC currently has no >> capacity to take on new projects and is working on changing that. >> > > That's correct. Lydia and me had a chat with Brad at FOSDEM and he > said they don't have the capacities at the moment and also, there's > still an open question of whether we would want to pay the increased > fees the SFC is currently charging for the service. Why would you want to use SFC instead of just filing it yourself? I'm in the process of filling out tax paperwork for a business currently. I don't think it's difficult, just time consuming. Obviously there's interest in having such an entity formed in the US, would it hurt to try filing and hear what the IRS has to say? -- Heath Matlock +1 256 274 4225 _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.