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| From: | Janet Swisher <jmswisher(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org |
| Subject: | Applying for membership |
| Date: | 2014-02-07 00:57:34 |
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Hi folks,
I'm a member of FLOSS Manuals, which is a project to create free,
open-source documentation for free, open-source software. Our docs site is
http://en.flossmanuals.net/ and our organizational site is
http://www.flossmanuals.org/
FLOSS Manuals is incorporated as a Stichting in the Netherlands, and we are
interested in associating with SPI in order to more easily receive
donations from US donors, and offer those donors the benefit of tax
deductibility.
I have been lurking on this mailing list for several months, and figured I
would become a non-contributing member of SPI. However, my browsers report
that the security certificate on your application page (
https://members.spi-inc.org/) is untrusted. Is this a known problem that is
being corrected?
Given that, how should I next proceed?
Thanks,
Janet Swisher
| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Janet Swisher <jmswisher(at)gmail(dot)com>, spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Applying for membership |
| Date: | 2014-02-07 01:22:50 |
| Message-ID: | 52F4356A.4040403@postgresql.org |
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On 02/06/2014 04:57 PM, Janet Swisher wrote:
> FLOSS Manuals is incorporated as a Stichting in the Netherlands, and we are
> interested in associating with SPI in order to more easily receive
> donations from US donors, and offer those donors the benefit of tax
> deductibility.
+1 on FLOSS Manuals as an associated project. I vouch for them as
substantial and significant. And I know Janet.
Janet, we'll need the information on this page:
http://spi-inc.org/projects/associated-project-howto/
You can send that information to any SPI Board Member.
Having your members join as Contributing Members to SPI is recommended
just so you can participate in Board elections. However, it is not a
prerequisite.
One other thing you should think about is that money collected in the US
*cannot* be transferred to the Stichting. Instead, you will need to
spend that money on direct documented expenses (which can be incurred in
the Netherlands, the USA, or whereever).
--Josh Berkus
Assistant Treasurer, SPI