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GUADEC/Gnome Fund Appeal

Posted by Hemos on from the good-cause-monies dept.

With the end of the year approaching, the Gnome Foundation has put together an appeal for help. You can also just head over to Gnome.org to contribute directly - and this year, they become a charity organization, meaning that contributions for US citizens will be tax deductions. Yay, tax deductions!

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  1. Re:Why is there a GNOME foundation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this:

    The FSF promotes the development of free software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants. The FSF helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of software freedom.

    And when looking at the detail here here, it speaks nothing of FSF support. So I guess an uninformed guess would be "no, not for Gnome"

  2. Re:A Charity Organization? by zombiepopper · · Score: 5, Informative
    Gnome isn't a "charity" but a tax-exempt, non-profit organization. This is right from gnome.org:
    GNOME Foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax-deductible in the USA
    There are plenty of other organizations that have the same status that are surely more disturbing than a group dedicated to working on such a high quality (free) project as Gnome.
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