[fab] Idea:T-Shirts at Fedora Events...

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 10 17:01:56 UTC 2006


Tim Burke wrote:
> While this concept looks great on paper... a "reality factor" 
> consideration comes to mind.  While I claim to know next-to-nothing on 
> this topic authoritatively, I'm wondering.... remember we embarked down 
> the road of making the Fedora Foundation a non-profit.  That turned out 
> to be a colossal beaurocratic hastle.. so much so that we considered it 
> more bother than its worth.  (Not just on the setup, but ongoing 
> stuff).  My concern is whether there is legal/accounting Pandora's Box 
> here in terms of taking in money of any form.  For example even if all 
> the incoming money was either given to charity or into shirt costs... to 
> the extent that the FF is RH, who would do all the accounting/legal 
> required bookeeping/tax filing, etc...

Well did anyone seriously look at 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-October/msg00168.html?

Rahul




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