On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
The prior question is, where did the money come
from? I can't seem
to
figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is...
It does seem slightly opaque.
A small amount of digging suggests that Google gives money to here:
http://www.tides.org/index.php
...which then releases it again on Google's say so. Maybe. My only
evidence for this is really:
http://bit.ly/d5I3PD
This response is drawn from my previous knowledge of the Tides
Foundation, and no particular knowledge of how Google is using them:
In my experience in the past, the Tides Foundation manages a
charitable fund for an entity. Essentially, the entity gives money to
this fund, and then says "Hey, these people are doing good work, let's
help them do more of it..."; Tides then goes through and handles the
legal due diligence and the paperworky stuff that no one really wants
to do. :-)
Philippe