Yeti can't ski
February 23rd, 2011, 11:55 AM
Dear All,
The folks behind LibreOffice are preparing to establish a German foundation to formally stand as the legal entity responsible for the project.
In order to incorporate the entity they first need a mininum capital of EUR 50,000 (which will belong to the foundation itself; these are not incorporation costs) and, thus, they opened a donation campaign:
http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/
I am not in any manner related to the project other than being an user of LO and having made a humble donation myself. What inspired me contribute is the transparency of the process. For instance, anyone can check and discuss the draft bylaws of the future foundation:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws
LO will be a part of Ubuntu and Canonical is contributing with staff and code. If anyone can spare a dime with the initiave, I really think it is well invested money.
It would be great to have community support outwheighing that of government and corporate sponsors.
Cheers,
Yeti
The folks behind LibreOffice are preparing to establish a German foundation to formally stand as the legal entity responsible for the project.
In order to incorporate the entity they first need a mininum capital of EUR 50,000 (which will belong to the foundation itself; these are not incorporation costs) and, thus, they opened a donation campaign:
http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/
I am not in any manner related to the project other than being an user of LO and having made a humble donation myself. What inspired me contribute is the transparency of the process. For instance, anyone can check and discuss the draft bylaws of the future foundation:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws
LO will be a part of Ubuntu and Canonical is contributing with staff and code. If anyone can spare a dime with the initiave, I really think it is well invested money.
It would be great to have community support outwheighing that of government and corporate sponsors.
Cheers,
Yeti