Re: Funding the build farm

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:38:38 +0100
John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:53:06AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>      On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>  [...]  
> 
>      It may still be interesting to also go via the FSF. This would mean bank
>      accounts in the euro and the dollar currency spaces, and it might be 
> easier
>      for US donors to deduce donations from their taxes.
> 
> The FSF does have a EUR bank account.  However, if past experience is anything
> to go by, then :
> 
> 1.  The FSF will have little interest in collecting funds for specific 
> projects.
>     They (with a few very special exceptions) only take donations which go 
> into
>     central FSF funds to be dispersed as they think fit.
> 
>   AND
> 
> 2.  The Conservancy (which normally DOES do directed funding) refuses to do 
> so for
>     GNU projects, for fear of offending the FSF.
> 

What about the FSFE? Would they be more amenable or are they just the
European arm of the FSF?

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