Workshop

Working alongside a vendor neutral non-profit

Monday, 19 May 2025 @ 12:05 - 13:00

Lots of founders dream of a charitable / non-profit foundation entity parallel to their company to hold various assets for the community. This workshop will look at some of the benefits and costs of this, and at different structures and jurisdictions and how well they can work. Interesting questions of where to stash your trademarks, how to manage multi-vendor conflict and competition, the value of charitable tax reliefs vs. compliance costs will be discussed.

Michael helps to manage the FLOSS Foundations mailing list which a forum for discussion for the leadership of most of the world’s FLOSS foundations, and helped to found The Document Foundation.