[Squeakfoundation]national subfoundations?

[Sander Tichelaar]

Wouldn't it be an idea to organise this through the existing Smalltalk 
User Groups?

Sander


Marcus Denker wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> Do we need national subfoundations?               
> 
> Here in Germany we could have some major advantages:
> 
> 1) Make it easier to donate. International Money tranfer is *really*
> expensive. And Credit Cards are not as common in Germany as in the
> US.
> The best thing would be a normal german Bank account, so people and companys
> can simply transfer the money they want to donate.
> 
> 2) Let the government pay. This is really important.
> It should be possible to get an official status that would entitle
> the subfoundation to issue  "donation-receipts" which allow the donor
> to reduce his taxes.                                            
> (I don't pay taxes (poor student), so I'm not entirely sure about how
> this works, but I think it will be possible to set something up like
> that.)                                                  
> 
> 3) It's good to have a local contact person. 
> And it's simply the right thing to do: Companies and people are donating
> money for many cases, and it would make everything much simpler if Squeak 
> would fit in the "normal" way of doing things.                                  
> 
> So if we think that this is a good thing, I would volunteer to
> search for more information about how to do this here in germany.
> 
>            Marcus      
> 
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