Hi Cees

I have another idea. I know that some Squeak Germany Foundation Squeakers 
will be at ESUG and this would be a really smart to have an official 
presentation of the Squeak G Foundation. During the presentation we could 
announce that ESUG gives a purcentage of the income (if any) to the Squeak 
Foundation. Then we could ask for others donators.

I made a bet with Dave Thomas that we would get a running structure soon 
and he was pessimistic so we could then show that a first Squeak 
Foundation with modest but existing goals is there and willing to grow.

I think that we should throw away all the mess around the discussion of 
the constitution
(because lot of people like to talk but few act- I can tell that ESUG is 
because
  a couple of fools are running it). We will see later when we will have 
the time to discuss philosophy.

What do you think?

Stef



On mardi, juin 18, 2002, at 07:51  PM, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> said:
>> Right now even if we want to give money to Squeak we cannot.
>
> With SqF having stalled (I haven given up my attempts to communicate with 
> Dan
> for the moment; I've got other stuff on my mind), I think the German 
> Squeak
> Verein is a good place to send money to. It's a democratic institution, 
> it's a
> legal entity (well, it is but it ain't usable probably until the 
> registration
> bits are dealt with), etcetera. In short, it's everything what SqF will 
> be,
> when everyone gets some time to set it up ;-).
>
> I'm helping ESUG with setting up an on-line payment system for stuff like
> congress registrations. It might be an idea to use that system to enhance
> things a bit, with maybe a separate page for Squeak e.V. donations and
> CD sales. I'll keep it in mind for when the main stuff runs.
>
> --
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>
>
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