SPI resolution 2013-06-30.jmd.1: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing as an associated project

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:37:25PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 06/30/2013 03:09 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > Presented for the July 11th AGM; their website is at
> > http://smc.org.in/ and while they already have a not-for-profit society
> > registered in India since 2010 it doesn't help them with cross border
> > donations such as payments from Google Summer of Code.
> 
> So the idea is that SPI would be their US fund?

Yes, in a similar manner to the way Debian use SPI in the US but FFIS in
Europe. They have an existing organisation that suits their local needs
well, but doesn't interoperate well with global donor requirements.

J.

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