[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:23:53PM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm (jeremy at ciroap.org) wr
> On 04/03/2010, at 1:45 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

> > 3. how many CS organizations are nothing but receptacles for money
> > generated either by govt or by business?

> Almost all of them, I guess.

And Tapani added :
 
and T-shirt sales.

So do ours. Exclusively !
As a consequence, we are not able to participate directly in meetings "out of reach" (outer the center of Europe).
But that is the "cost" of our independance and our freedom of speech ... and writing !

Best regards
Jean-Louis Fullsack
director, CSDPTT (www.csdptt.org)





> Message du 04/03/10 09:41
> De : "Tapani Tarvainen" 
> A : governance at lists.cpsr.org
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> Objet : Re: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand
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> 
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:23:53PM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm (jeremy at ciroap.org) wr
> > On 04/03/2010, at 1:45 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> 
> > > 3. how many CS organizations are nothing but receptacles for money
> > > generated either by govt or by business?
> 
> > Almost all of them, I guess.
> 
> But only almost! I can claim Effi as an exception, as we
> receive money from neither government nor businesses.
> 
> (Our funding comes from membership fees, individual donations
> and T-shirt sales. I don't claim we'd unconditionally reject
> donations from businesses should it come to that, but so
> far none has been offered nor have we solicited any.
> As for the government, money flows to the opposite
> direction as we pay taxes for our meagre T-shirt sales.)
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
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