[EuroPython] Payment, taxes, accounting, badges

[Denis Frère]

Le Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:08:51PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg pianota:
> > 
> > Please, ask this to your accountant, he/she should know if we need a VAT.
> 
> Indeed. You should be very careful about VAT -- if we mess up
> here, we'll end up having to pay the 21% !

If we have no VAT account, it's just a in/out accounting, that's allowed
for ASBL, non-profit associations don't need to have a VAT number.
Now, if it eases your mind, ok, I will ask my accountant.

> I think it's faster if Denis simply sets up the ShareIT account.

Not quite sure about it. But, ok, I'm doing it.
By the way, what's exactly 'on purchase order' ?

> There are too many details to know about which only P3B can
> provide (please also see my other mail on setting up the
> account).

No, Tom can do anything when he wants to. :-)

But again, I started to set up the account already, Tom has work enough
with the website. I'd even say he isn't helped that much by all those
wonderful web specialists in the neighborhood... :-(
Where are the famous Zopistas ?

I'm not speaking to you, Marc-Andre, who help a lot in organising
things. :-)

I would like to insist on the fact that it was meant to be a collective
effort. P3B is a non-profit organisation and it will let all bonus money
(if any) to EuroPython. That means we're not earning a cent with it. Ok,
perhaps that 'enlight' us to some extent, but we're also investing much
time in it, even if we don't look like because we're not very present on
the list.

Most of P3B members are working for Aragne. Aragne is the only one who
has ever printed something for EuroPython, without even having his own
logo on the paper. We're not taking any new client to have some time to
spend for the conference. Thanks to Tom and Vincent for the website.
Thanks to Oli who is silently doing lots of things you don't even think
to.

I don't want to complain when saying so.

We're not alone, thanks *a lot* to other organisers and future speakers.
I just would like to ask for more help. We have, all of us, something to
win in the EuroPython conference. We are 136 programmers subscribed to
this mailing-list, 136 experts that could do something incredible in a
very short laps of time. Let's just do it now.

Help to find sponsors or act as sponsors, add a localizer product on the
website and start some translations as we did for the press-release,
write a small product for exhibitors registration, print some nice PDF
flyers with Andy's library and put them on the website so that anyone
could print them and distribute around him, find some nice guys to put
our banner on their website as this small example : 
http://www.codeur.org/actualite/actualite.php?lang=en

Go there and write a comment saying that this conference is a great
event because we all want it to happen and Python is so nice.
That will cost you nothing but one minute, and a few or lots of people
will be favorably impressed. That guy told us he could make a 'special
Python and Zope' page if he sees there is some interest and if we help
him to provide some good information. That would be a small or a big
advertisement (I don't know nor care about the quantity of readers this
website is having), but free advertisement for Python and hence, for
yourself. 

If you are here, it's because Python is your favorite language, because
beautiful is better than ugly, implicit is better than implicit, ...
Tell the world _loud enough_ how great is your favorite language and you
won't have any problem to sell your stuff. There are so many bad things
Python could improve ; there is a huge amount of work for all Python
developers. We just have to show to the world that what we say is true :
136 Python developers together can make a wonder within a very short
laps of time.

Go on, times have come. Ask yourself what you could do and do it.

In advance, thank you.

Denis

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Denis FRERE
P3B    : Club Python(-Zope) Belge --------- http://www.p3b.org
OS3B   : Club Open-Software(-Linux) Carolo  http://www.os3b.org 
Aragne : Python-Zope Solutions & Formations http://www.aragne.com