From: Ira Abramov (Lists-Linux-IL_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 01 Apr 2003 - 11:09:19 IDT
Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Tue, 01 Apr:
> >Just reading the faq, I thought it was amusing that the in the list
> >of activities that the Amuta will support, there are conferences,
> >teaching, support for open source users, etc. Nowhere is there mentioned
> >any support or sponsering of *the development* of free sw. Is
> >that on purpose?
> Obviously, developing is included :-)
> development of software where I don't think we saw or see any need for
> an official body.
While Hamakor doesn't mention that in it's guidelines, the purpose it
was created for is to act as a legal and financial body to represent
activists. if you find a sponsor for your project and they need a
reciept for their donation, do it through the amuta. the sponsor gets a
reciept that is tax deductable and the amuta can help you use the money
for your purposes. they may not be able to just give you cash without a
reciept, but I'm sure there are ways to arrange a way to get you the
funds legally under some other definition or expense, etc. this is stuff
the amuta's "va'ad" and accountant take care of.
But more to the point, because of the above foggyness and my past
disagreement with Oleg about "the ideology of Hamakor" I started making
moves towards establishing an Israeli chapter of the FSF (more likely
under the FSF Europe umbrella), including an Israeli savannah server
"Arava" based on a hebrew sourceforge, but all this is too early to talk
about and still in its diapers, plus my only current sponsor may bail out
on me. I can't tell you more at the moment, but rest assured that there
are forces on the move :)
live($free) || die
Ira
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