SPI branch in Spain

[Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo]

  Hello!

   There are an option of obtaining a big donation in Spain for Debian.
   The main problem is the lack of a proper organization to receive the
   money. That's why some of the Spanish developers are thinking a way
   to handle this. We would like to find a way which could be used for
   other donations, as it has happened before that some donations have
   been very problematic to be received.

   I have been reading the Spanish laws about this issue, and I think
   that there are these options:

     1. Use ffis e.V. in Germany. That has problems with the fees
     charged by banks and as I understand from the laws I have read, no
     tax deduction. I'm not completely sure about this, as that is a EU
     issue which could be in other diferrent law, but as I read the law,
     you have to register also in Spain to have the tax exemptions.

     2. Create a different asocciaton here like ffis e.V. with a bank
     account and handle ourselves the donation. This new association
     could be created as SPI España, to be able to receive also possible
     donations to other projects under SPI umbrella, as GNOME or OFTC.
     
     3. Register SPI also in Spain. This way SPI could open a bank
     account here and benefit from donations directly under the control
     of the SPI Treasurer, or a delegate here in Spain. The account
     could be created in a bank offering Internet operations (only in
     Spanish). The thing that is more problematic with this is that it's
     needed a signed act where the foreign association agrees to open
     the delegation here. Also it's needed the documentation that probes
     that the association has been legally constituted in the US. This
     means some snail mail.

  Comments, suggestions?

-- 
  Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
     jsogo at debian.org
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