[Chicago] Open Source Time Donation?

[Adam Jenkins]

On 9/6/07, Ted Pollari <tcp at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
> It's an interesting idea though -- setting up Open Source projects as
> non-profit corps and selling companies on contributing coding time as a tax
> deduction.  I have no clue how easy it is to setup a non-profit, but I gotta
> believe that if you had an open source minded attorney something could be
> done easily/cheaply and hence be done for more projects.  If that was made
> as a central selling point, I gotta believe that some companies would be
> more keen on giving person-time (not to mention capital support) to OS
> projects.
>

>From what I remember from 4H in my youth, setting up a non-profit is simple
and doesn't take a lawyer at all.

-t
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