GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

[josh joshtriplett org]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 05:32:27PM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote:
> With that said, at the moment we are technically “delinquent" so we have
> lost our tax exempt status for not submitting required 990 forms.[4,5]
> Assuming that has been a mistake and that we do actually want to benefit
> from 501(c)(3) status, then I think we would be obliged to sort all that
> out and just stick to the original mission of the GNOME Foundation which
> essentially allows us to continue to do things like produce useful free
> software and educate people all about it.

I've seen this mentioned previously on this list as well, and I'm
curious how that happened.

I would also suggest that this should be the top priority issue for the
GNOME Foundation to fix.  Is the current Board already working to fix
this?

- Josh Triplett