Gerald A geraldablists@gmail.com wrote:
A donation to a chapter within one jurisdiction is not something that is easily moved to another chapter in another jurisdiction. [...]
Why? If a chapter can pay a hosting company for their servi- ces with a donation, they should be able to pay WMDE for their services as well. There is no need to "move a donation to another jurisdiction".
Well, this ignores the political and logistical sensitivities involved in paying WMDE from outside of DE.
While nothing prevents a chapter from opting to pay WMDE for this service, I'm sure some members/contributors would be annoyed their monies are going "out of country" when there are perfectly good hosting services "in our back yard". I'm not sure on the legalities of Charities in all jurisdictions, but this could also restrict/prevent a chapter registered as a charity from sending money out of country. [...]
I'm not aware of any such restriction, and in the 27 coun- tries south of Norway they would probably be illegal anyhow. But maybe I'm just biased as a German member of a German Verein that pays for hosting in not-so-German Amsterdam - as long as the charitable goals are achieved, I don't see a problem.
Tim