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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/donations/index.sgml,v 1.16 2008/10/15 01:09:53 tabthorpe Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Donations Liaison">
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<!ENTITY email 'donations'>
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<html>
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&header;
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#goal">Donations Liaison Goals</a></li>
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<li><a href="#charter">Donations Liaison Charter</a></li>
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<li><a href="#donating">Donating to the FreeBSD Project</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Other Donations Links</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="wantlist.html">FreeBSD Project Want List</a></li>
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<li><a href="donors.html">List of FreeBSD Donations</a></li>
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</ul>
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<a name="goal"></a>
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<h2>Project Goal</h2>
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<p>As FreeBSD's userbase has grown, the number of people who want
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to donate materials or funds to the Project has grown. The
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Donations Liaison is intended to streamline the handling of these
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donations, and to ensure that they are handled in a timely and
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reasonable manner.</p>
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<a name="charter"></a>
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<h2>Donations Liaison Charter</h2>
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<p>The purpose of the Donations Liaison Office is to encourage and
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guide donations according to a set of community-accepted rules.
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The DLO has the following responsibilities.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>to establish and maintain a clear set of procedures for
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handling donations.</li>
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<li>to respond to donation offers in a timely manner.</li>
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<li>to maintain a list of equipment and resources desired by the
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FreeBSD community.</li>
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<li>to coordinate donation offers with the FreeBSD developer
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community.</li>
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<li>to shepherd donations through the entire donation
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process.</li>
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<li>to work with a small team to ensure a timely,
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informed, and correct response is available at all times.</li>
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<li>to publicly acknowledge donors and donations when the
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donation is complete.</li>
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<li>record the status of all loans to the Project.</li>
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<li>provide open records of all donations to the FreeBSD
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developer community.</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="donating"></a>
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<h2>Donating to the FreeBSD Project</h2>
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<p>So, you want to donate something to the FreeBSD Project?
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Great! We strongly rely upon user donations to accomplish our
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goals. Please read below to see how to contact us about your
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donation.</p>
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<p>If you don't know what you want to give, take a look at our <a
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href="wantlist.html">list of needs</a>. We would appreciate any
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items on this list. If you have equipment you'd like to donate,
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read on.</p>
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<a name="taxcredit"></a>
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<h3>Tax Credit for Donations</h3>
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<p>The FreeBSD Foundation can act as a charitable organization for
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tax purposes. If you live in the United States, your donation
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can be deducted from your taxes under certain conditions. If
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you want a receipt for tax purposes your contribution, please
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let us know when you send information on your donation.</p>
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<p>A tax credit is not as easy as it might seem. The donations team
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must be informed of the desire for a tax deduction so the foundation
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may be notified, and informed when it has been shipped. The Foundation
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will also need to know when the item has been received by the
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intended individual.
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The Foundation must then be able to
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demonstrate that the donation is in the <i>public good</i>. All
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of this together means that while we probably have developers
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who would be interested in that big box of ISA cards in your
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closet, you probably cannot get a tax credit for them; the total
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work needed to process, ship, and document them far exceeds
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their total value.</p>
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<p>The FreeBSD Foundation will provide a receipt for delivery of
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equipment. They will not, however, provide a fair-market
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valuation of the equipment -- in fact, the law forbids them to
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do so. We recommend checking elsewhere for valuations of
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hardware donations. Since many of our donations are obsolete,
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making fair market value hard to judge, we suggest searching on
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Ebay or other used equipment sites for prices paid for similar
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equipment.</p>
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<p>To receive a tax receipt for a donation, you will need to complete
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a <a href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Hardware%20Donation%20Form.pdf">Hardware Donation Form</a>
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from the FreeBSD Foundation website.</p>
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<h3>How to Donate</h3>
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<p>Part of the goal of the Donations Liaison Office is to match
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donations with developers who can use them. We don't accept
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just any donation; we only handle those that have a home with a
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developer who can use them to improve FreeBSD. This saves time
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all around, and also helps assure donors that what their
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contributions are actually supporting the FreeBSD Project. The
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down side is that we need some information about your donation
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before accepting it.</p>
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<p>Donations generally fall into three categories:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#money">Financial</a></li>
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<li><a href="#systems">Complete Computers</a></li>
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<li><a href="#components">Computer Components</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>If you have something to offer that doesn't fall into one of
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these categories, don't fret! Just contact us at
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donations@FreeBSD.org with your offer. Just because it's not
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the run-of-the-mill offer doesn't mean that we're not
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interested.</p>
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<h3><a name="money">Financial Contributions</a></h3>
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<p>The FreeBSD Project does not directly accept financial
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contributions. A sponsor organization, the <a
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href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org">FreeBSD Foundation</a>,
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accepts financial contributions for us. Please see their Web
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site for details on financial contributions.</p>
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<h3><a name="systems">Complete Computer Systems</a></h3>
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<p>The FreeBSD Project always needs computers. If you have a
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computer that you would like to donate to the Project, please
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contact us with the following information:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Hardware specifications: architecture, motherboard, CPU,
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disk space, memory. (If the computer is an Alpha, please also
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include the output of the commands SHOW CONFIG, SHOW MEM, and
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SHOW DEV.)</li>
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<li>Does this system currently run FreeBSD, or is it
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unsupported? If possible, please attach a dmesg from a
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FreeBSD install on this system.</li>
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<li>Are you willing to ship this system?</li>
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<li>Your physical location. We try to make shipping as easy and
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inexpensive as possible.</li>
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<li>Also mention if you want a <a href="#taxcredit">tax
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credit</a> for this system. (Note that not all donations can
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realistically receive a tax credit, as the cost of supplying
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the credit may exceed the value of the donation.)<li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="components">Computer Components</a></h3>
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<p>If you have hardware that you would like to donate to the
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Project, please contact us with the following information:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The hardware description: model, part number, manufacturer,
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etc. If you have an exact link to the manufacturer's Web page
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for this component, that would be helpful.</li>
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<li>Is this hardware currently supported in FreeBSD?</li>
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<li>What documentation do you have? A piece of hardware is not
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sufficient to write a driver; driver authors need detailed
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chipset data from the manufacturer. (Don't worry too much if
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you don't have this documentation, as it may be available
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elsewhere.)</li>
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<li>Are you willing to ship this system?</li>
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<li>Your physical location. We try to make shipping as easy and
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inexpensive as possible.</li>
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<li>Also mention if you want a <a href="#taxcredit">tax
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credit</a> for this hardware. (Note that not all donations
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can realistically receive a tax credit, as the cost of
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supplying the credit may exceed the value of the
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donation.)<li>
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</ul>
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<h3>What we Do with this Information</h3>
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<p>Once we have a description of the donation, the Donations
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Liaison Office will contact the developer community and offer the
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resource to them. If we have a developer who would like the
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item, we put the donor and the recipient in contact and let them
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work out shipping information. If there are multiple developers
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interested in a resource, we try to learn what each developer
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would use the resource for and allocate it most effectively for
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the Project. If no developer is interested, we turn down the
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offer.</p>
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<p>Our goal is to place (or decline) all donations within 7 days
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of receipt of complete information.</p>
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&footer;
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</body>
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