News

• On 23 May, 2007, we received a letter from the IRS classifying us as a public charity.
• On 16 May, 2005, we transferred the site to a new server: bigger, faster, more storage, more memory.
• (Haven't updated the news in ages). We've gotten full funding for several projects: FreeSWAN-maintenance-*, GnuRadio*, linux-on-xbox, and up2us. We've gotten partial funding for SBCL-AMD64, but the project contractor backed out on his bid.
• On 14 May, 2003, we received our merchant account, so we can accept donations via credit card.
• On 11 Apr, 2003, we received funding for GNU Radio.
• On 11 Mar, 2003, we became a registered charity in New York State, #20-18-24.
• On 16 Feb, 2003, we moved to a faster server with SSL capabilities.
• On 22 Jan, 2003, we switched to the software marketplace.
• On 16 Oct, 2002, we received our determination letter! The Public Software Fund is now a tax-exempt public charity!
• On 3 Sep, 2002, we filed our response to the IRS's initial refusal letter.
• On 26 Aug, 2002, we received a refusal, which apparently all nonprofits receive when they request 501(c)(3) status.
• On 5 July, 2002, we received our first donation, of $35,000, from John Gilmore. He is funding Tom Jennings to work on peer-to-peer sharing of free software RPMs. You can help this project along by making your own donation.
• We filed our 501(c)(3) public charity paperwork on 30 May 2002. If the IRS accepts us as a public charity, then all donations made since we were founded will be treated as charitable donations for US tax purposes. If you were going to pay someone to write free software anyway, please donate to us instead, let us pay that person, and you will probably get a tax deduction (and even if the IRS rejects us, you are no worse off).
• On 27 May 2002, we elected officers: Russell Nelson as President, Brenton D. Faber as Treasurer, and Donnie Barnes as Secretary.
• On 2 Apr 2002, added the philosophy page.
• On 28 March 2002, opened a bank account at Adirondack Federal Credit Union.
• On 17 March 2002, we got our EIN.
• On 6 Feb 2002, Daniel Nachbar donated the Public Software Initiative's publicsoftware.org and public-software.org to the Public Software Fund. Thanks, Dan!
• As of 15 Feb 2002, we are now the Public Software Fund, Inc.