[LGM] finances

[Frank Trampe]

19% is a rather hefty cut. I would be happy to volunteer some time to save
some money.

Soenke, could we get a discount from K8 if we submit a final list ourselves?

Dave, could you use a non-certified-non-profit in the States as the
intermediate beneficiary?


On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> As I understand it, Louis had only engaged GNOME Foundation in terms of
> holding funds while SPI member project status was set up, which will not
> happen at least until 11th December 2017, ruling SPI out for this year.
>
> Now that the Plan A (GNOME) option is now closed, then, all that is left
> there for us now is to say thank you to Louis for investigating it. Thank
> you Louis! :)
>
> On to Plan B: K8 (the name of the non-profit company in charge of the art
> academy's think tank/transfer/training activities in Saarbruecken :)
>
> Since the money would be sponsorship for (a) videos of all sessions posted
> on YouTube with a 'thanks' intro card (as you can see on eg
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MAuBdLsICc) and (b) for travel bursary,
> especially to help get people together to hack on Variable Fonts support
> now provided by freetype, then K8 will take a 19% cut for handling
> everything.
>
> That seems like the easiest solution and frees up Frank's volunteer time
> to do other stuff (like maybe help arrange the video recordings/streaming
> to be done using only libre software? :)
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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