Re: getting support for developers

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(at)dalibo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Gabriele Bartolini" <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Oleg Bartunov" <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Subject: Re: getting support for developers
Date: 2008-03-13 10:48:19
Message-ID: 200803131148.24525.cedric.villemain@dalibo.com
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Le Tuesday 11 March 2008, Gabriele Bartolini a écrit :
> Ciao Magnus,
>
> Yes. But I think the rules are reasonably similar across europe these days
>
> > - though of course not identical. I can only speak from the perspective
> > of the Swedish rules, which I know.
>
> In any case, we can't do this. We need professional advice and an
> accountant (or accounting firm) that follows PGEU activity from a financial
> and fiscal point of view. If you remember, when we (Italians) proposed the
> European association to be based in Italy, we provided a list of expenses
> which included full support (all year) by professional accountants.

It is totally free to get information for that from the tax department of/in
France. And not very hard (get a meet or go directly then take 1 or 2 hours
to talk with the civil servant.)

>
> I assume PGEU will gather a sensible amount of money when sponsorships will
> be handled, and in that case I strongly suggest we get a professional
> accountant (maybe JPA will be more precise - in any case we could move this
> discussion on our list).
>
> But as you say, we'd need professional advice before we say what we *can*
>
> > do. I'm just saying it may be a lot less easy than it seems.
>
> Exactly. I guess it is no point of us going any further on this, as we need
> skilled professionals for this sort of activity.
>
> I'll just snip the other ideas which are good, but which reallyi is
>
> > something for the future :-)
>
> Yes, I agree. :)
>
> Insane ideas. Which very often come up on my mind. :) - If you only knew
> what I am thinking for the next PGDay ... :P
>
> Ciao,
> Gabriele

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