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Minor rewrite based upon experiences to date with donations@:

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- discuss "tax credit overhead" and why not every donation gets a credit.
- common offers to donations@ can be answered with a URL listing info we need.

A few minor language cleanups while I'm here.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/donations/index.sgml,v 1.6 2002/09/23 16:07:57 mwlucas Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/donations/index.sgml,v 1.7 2002/10/09 06:26:04 kuriyama Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Donations Liason">
<!ENTITY email 'donations'>
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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<p>The FreeBSD Foundation can act as a charitable organization for
tax purposes. If you live in the United States, your donation
can be deducted from your taxes. If you want a receipt for tax
purposes your contribution, please let us know when you send
information on your donation.</p>
can be deducted from your taxes under certain conditions. If
you want a receipt for tax purposes your contribution, please
let us know when you send information on your donation.</p>
<p>A tax credit is not as easy as it might seem. Deductible
contributions must be shipped to the FreeBSD Foundation. There,
a Foundation volunteer must process the donation and ship it to
the actual recipient. The Foundation must also be able to
demonstrate that the donation is in the <i>public good</i>. All
of this together means that while we probably have developers
who would be interested in that big box of ISA cards in your
closet, you probably cannot get a tax credit for them; the total
work needed to process, ship, and document them far exceeds
their total value.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation will provide a receipt for delivery of
equipment. They will not, however, provide a fair-market
valuation of the equipment -- in fact, they are forbidden to do
so by law. We recommend checking elsewhere for valuations of
valuation of the equipment -- in fact, the law forbids them to
do so. We recommend checking elsewhere for valuations of
hardware donations. Since many of our donations are obsolete,
making fair market value hard to judge, we suggest searching on
Ebay or other used equipment sites for prices paid for similar
equipment.</p>
<h3>Donation Types</h3>
<h3>How to Donate</h3>
<p>Part of the goal of the Donations Liason Office is to match
donations with developers who can use them. This means that we
don't accept just any donation; we only handle those that have
an interested recipient. This saves time all around, and also
helps assure donors that what their contributions are actually
supporting the FreeBSD Project. The down side of this process
is that we need some information about your donation before
accepting it.</p>
donations with developers who can use them. We don't accept
just any donation; we only handle those that have a home with a
developer who can use them to improve FreeBSD. This saves time
all around, and also helps assure donors that what their
contributions are actually supporting the FreeBSD Project. The
down side is that we need some information about your donation
before accepting it.</p>
<p>Donations generally fall into three categories:</p>
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<h3><a name="systems">Complete Computer Systems</a></h3>
<p>The FreeBSD Project is always in need of computers. If you
want to donate a new computer, please contact us with the
specifications. We are also happy to accept donations of used
systems that can be used by a developer. If you have a computer
that you would like to donate to the Project, please contact us
with the following information:</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Project always needs computers. If you have a
computer that you would like to donate to the Project, please
contact us with the following information:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hardware specifications: motherboard, CPU, disk space,
memory. (If the computer is an Alpha, please also include the
output of the commands SHOW CONFIG, SHOW MEM, and SHOW
DEV.)</li>
<li>Hardware specifications: architecture, motherboard, CPU,
disk space, memory. (If the computer is an Alpha, please also
include the output of the commands SHOW CONFIG, SHOW MEM, and
SHOW DEV.)</li>
<li>Does this system currently run FreeBSD, or is it
unsupported? If possible, please attach a dmesg from a
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inexpensive as possible.</li>
<li>Also mention if you want a <a href="#taxcredit">tax
credit</a> for this donation.<li>
credit</a> for this system. (Note that not all donations can
realistically receive a tax credit, as the cost of supplying
the credit may exceed the value of the donation.)<li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="components">Computer Components</a></h3>
<p>If we're going to support a type of hardware, we need that
hardware. If you have a piece of hardware that you would like
to donate to the Project, please contact us with the following
information:</p>
<p>If you have hardware that you would like to donate to the
Project, please contact us with the following information:</p>
<ul>
<li>The hardware description: model, part number, manufacturer,
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you don't have this documentation, as it may be available
elsewhere.)</li>
<li>Are you willing to ship this system?</li>
<li>Your physical location. We try to make shipping as easy and
inexpensive as possible.</li>
<li>Also mention if you want a <a href="#taxcredit">tax
credit</a> for this donation.<li>
credit</a> for this hardware. (Note that not all donations
can realistically receive a tax credit, as the cost of
supplying the credit may exceed the value of the
donation.)<li>
</ul>
<h3>What we Do with this Information</h3>
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&footer;
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