[Osmf-talk] Anonymous Donations

[Dan Stowell]

2016-11-04 16:41 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
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> 2016-11-04 13:55 GMT+01:00 Frederik Ramm <frederik at osmfoundation.org>:
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>> We're pretty sure that anonymously taking a donation of £50 or £100 or
>> even £500 is acceptable. But what if someone wanted to give us, say,
>> £50,000 anonymously? Or even more?
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>> Is it ok for us to take anonymous donations of any size? Or should there
>> be an upper limit or some other conditions attached to donations?
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> I think truly anonymous donations would be OK (from out point of view), as
> in "nobody knows who threw this suitcase full of cash through the open
> window". But this is unlikely to happen (and would likely open other legal
> questions like taxes, illegal activities etc.). For transparency reasons it
> should not be possible to donate large sums of money without being
> mentioned, for transparency reasons, as frequent large donations will make
> us dependent from the donor and at least the membership should be aware of
> it.
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> A sane threshold could be 1 or 2% of our annual budget.

I like this suggestion of Martin's. Given the issue that Lukas raised
(i.e. splitting a donation into pieces), perhaps the rule would be
that a donor's total contributions across the period of an
OSMF-budget-year would be compared against a percentage threshold of
the annual budget for that year.
I don't know how to choose what the actual percentage would be.

Best
Dan