Re: Transferring privoxy.org to SPI
David Schmidt <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.privoxy.devel |
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Me neither; it seems to be in line with the original project's aims. - David On 10/17/2011 9:02 PM, Lee wrote: >> If there are no objections > > I have no objections. > Lee > > > > On 10/17/11, Fabian Keil<[email protected]> wrote: >> One of the reasons for the Privoxy project to become an associated >> project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc (SPI) was to be able >> to collect donations and have a legal entity to pay for privoxy.org. >> >> The domain was and still is owned and generously payed for by >> Andreas (BCC'd) who was always open to transferring it to one >> of us. >> >> After a recent reminder by Andreas, I've been in contact with >> SPI's board of directors to figure out the best way to pay for >> the domain. >> >> The recommendation I got was to transfer the domain over to >> SPI, which is what other associated projects like the Debian >> project have done as well. >> >> The good news is that SPI has partnered with a domain registrar >> which would cover the costs (so they wouldn't cut into the >> donations). SPI could also provide the DNS service for us. >> >> Unfortunately this currently isn't documented on the website, >> or we might have done the transfer years ago and already spent >> the donations on things that actually help to improve Privoxy >> itself, instead of saving them to eventually be able to cover >> the costs of the domain. >> >> The downside is that the domain would count as an asset and >> for legal reasons SPI wouldn't be able to transfer it back >> to an individual project member or to another organization >> that isn't a 501(c)3 US non-profit: >> http://www.spi-inc.org/drafts/associated-project-howto/ >> >> I think we can live with that but wanted to mention it anyway. >> >> If there are no objections, I intend to request the transfer >> at the end of the month. >> >> Any questions or concerns? >> >> Fabian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct