[Openicc] GSoC mentors payments usage

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 04.09.08, 09:52 -0700 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> On Wednesday 03 September 2008 10:35:53 pm Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > Costs we could be:
> > * hardware, like measurement devices, electronic, targets ...
> > * running costs, like internet server and domain fees
> > * ICC membership fees, e.g. I rejected my WG membership because of the fee
> > * there is always something ...
> > * or simply for paying the mentors (mine can go to something of the above)
> >
> > In order to not let pass the payments, I could imagine several options.
> > How this could happen:
> > * directly sent the transfere to a person of trust and use the difference
> >   of income minus tax and other stuff for possible expenses
> >   simple but not very transparent
> > * give to a trusted organisation and call the money from there if needed
> > * transfere to a organisation of joice just to let the money not run away
> >   (KDE, Qt/Nokia ;-) Gnome, fd.o?, FSF ...); works always
> > * start a own tax free organisation :-(
> >
> >
> > Hope we are not too late at all.
> 
> No we are not too late at this point.  But we need to figure something out in 
> the next few weeks if we are going to do this.   
> 
> The Google rules say that the mentor orginization can use the funds for any 
> purpose including making payments to the mentors but also for anything that 
> the orginization decides to use it for.  If the funds went to some tax exempt 
> or charitable orginization then this would mitigate most of the tax 
> implications.  One way to handle this would be for whoever handles this for us 
> to get the payment and then domate it to a qualified tax deductable 
> orginization which would then allow that person to write off the full amount 
> and avoid any tax liabilities while claimming the whole amount as income.  
> This would avoid all of the paper work and liabilities related to distributing 
> the funds to the mentors. As Kai-Uwe points out this would not be very 
> transpartent.
> 
> Another possibility would be to have the funds sent to freedesktop.org since 
> OpenICC is an off shoot of that orginization.  I suspect that if we talked to 
> someone with some pull in freedesktop.org that they would be willing to hold 
> the funds for us so that we could later use them.   

I will try to invest into this.
 
kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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