[openbeos] Re: Couple of non-sequiters

>I like this method.  Setup various donation boxes.  Let the people 
decide
>what the best use of their money is.  If they want to donate money for
>hardware let them.  If they want to donate money for long term 
investments
>let them.  These donating boxes would be setup on a website, possibly
>OpenBeOS.  Maybe even give an option for anyone to create a donation 
box.
>Say someone gets a new piece of hardware that BeOS doesn't support.  
They
>can setup a donating box and put some money it in and wait for someone 
to
>volunteer to write the driver.

While I can't promise it will happen, and we've tried it before in 
various forms (the tipjar, the driverfund, the bebits and befaqs funds, 
the savebeos fund)...

But with beunited.org an officially recognized non-profit corp (it is 
now), all donations will be tax-deductable (for US citizens - still 
working on the details/paperwork/redtape for other countrymen).  That 
should help a little, I would think.  And I've been thinking about just 
such things - different types of donations.  So far, we've done the 
driverfund and the legalfund stuff, and I was also the collector for the 
tipjar.  

It can be done and I've been planning it... but the next step in that 
direction is a bank account in beunited.org's name (vice my own personal 
account), and PayPal, etc linked to it.  That's scheduled for this next 
week on my "todo list".  ;)

Deej
--
Donovan Schulteis
Chairman, Founder
beunited.org

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