[us-marketing] Re: Funding US efforts

Le 2011-01-01 21:06, Matthew Copple a écrit :
> I think you are right, Drew. Now is definitely the time to get a US
> non-profit going. For those of us who are German-challenged, could you
> give a brief summary of how the German and Italian groups are
> currently organized?
>
> Matthew Copple
> mcopple@kcopensource.org
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:23 PM, drew<drew@baseanswers.com>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The subject no one wants to have to deal with - money.
> >
> > Early on there was talk about forming a legal entity in the US to
> > promote LibreOffice - I was asked to not pursue that discussion and in
> > the mailing list I said it would be best to table the discussion.
> >
> > IMO the time to pick it up from the table is upon us.
> >
> > A quick review of the mailing lists and I would say there is maybe 14
> > active folks from the US - not a lot, but enough.
> >
> > Quite simply, there is no reason from anything I can see to expect any
> > real funding coming from TDF. Which begs the question - Where from then?
> >
> > I would ask those on the list here to review the site http://ooodev.org
> > and ask questions about it if need be - what I propose is the formation
> > of a _similar_ organization in the US, or I should say, to be precise,
> > that it is a good point to see if this fits in with the desires of
> > others and if so, to begin discussing how to make it happen.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> >
> > Thanks much
> >
> > Drew

Hi Matthew, Drew, Italo et al:

I echo this request to give a summary of the German and Italian 
non-profit organization. Once this is made we could perhaps create a 
generic organization model that we could post on the marketing pages for 
other groups. This will save other groups from going over this again and 
perhaps serve as a LibO model for others to follow (loosely).

I would volunteer to create the wiki page.

Marc


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