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Re: [opennic-discuss] Proposal: Establishment of an OpenNIC foundation using OpenNIC funds


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  • From: Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org>
  • To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Proposal: Establishment of an OpenNIC foundation using OpenNIC funds
  • Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:26:15 -0700

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 08:33:15PM +0100, Alex Nordlund wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Jon Hebb <somebodyrocks AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We have discussed this several times before.
> >
> > Important questions to look at:
> > -Under what country do we incorporate? The US? AU? UK? Or others...
> > -Who will oversee the financial accounts
> > -Who will manage finances beyond that such as taxes
> >
>
> I think before we go vote on this we should create a workgroup tasked with
> exploring the options and figure out where we have the ability to
> incorporate and where it would be most beneficial to do so.
> Personally I know that it's really easy to set up a NPO in Sweden and when
> you're dealing with less than 3m SEK accounting is easy.

Some have already explored the options. It's time to act, and I'm asking
that the membership vote to put into motion a working group that will make
the decisions, decisions beneficial for the organization. We are in the
analysis paralysis stage, where we talk about things for years and nothing
comes of it.

--Brian



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