Re: Withdrawl of fee for producing Debian CDs

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote:
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> 
> In any case, whether we call it contributions or payments, the bottom line
> is, we need a place to send money for the project. The ability to do this
> is a pre-depends on any other scheme for financing the project. Doesn't
> the project have enough legal status to open a checking account? What do
> we need to do to get to that point?

In most states, you have to file for at least a DBA, and be able to
take that to the bank to open a commercial account. THe only problem
with that is the suck more out of a commercial account than a personal
one.. And who is going to document where the money goes? I personally
don't care abotu the details, but *someone* is going to demand an
accounting someday. I think Bruce has enough to do right now..


> P.S. Just another point. If we had a place to deposit money, any future
> montary problems could be solved by "small" donations from the developers.
> I'd certainly send in $10 to help finance the project through any tough
> times. If the rest of the group feels as I do this would yield $1600
> dollars in one fell swoop. This wouldn't get very many people to trade
> shows, but it would provide funds for advertising and other promotional
> material.

I'd gladly personally send $10-$20 now, and have our fledgling ISP
send in $50-100, because we're running Debian..

Tim

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