[LGM] finances

[Frank Trampe]

And what if I could get a 501(c)3 to handle just this event for us, with an
agreement in place by December 11th? I think that I could cut a deal for 5%
or less if I prepare the disbursement list.



On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Frank Trampe <frank.trampe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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