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+<!--#include file="header.html" -->
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+<div class="container">
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+ <div class="row nh"><!-- current sponsor row -->
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+ <div class="col-lg-10 col-lg-offset-1 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
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+ <div class="panel panel-primary">
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+ <div class="panel-heading">Association</div>
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+ <div class="panel-body">
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+
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+ <p>The Buildroot open-source project is supported by a
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+ non-profit organization called the <strong>Buildroot
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+ Association</strong>. The goal of this non-profit
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+ organization is <strong>to engage actions to promote, help
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+ develop and democratise the Buildroot project</strong>.</p>
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+
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+ <p>This non-profit organization is registered as a legal
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+ entity in France, more precisely as an <em>association loi
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+ 1901</em>.</p>
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+
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+ <p>This organization can receive funding from members,
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+ donors and sponsors. This funding is then used to pay for:</p>
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+
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+ <ul>
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+ <li>the meeting rooms used during the Buildroot
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+ Developers Meeting twice per year;</li>
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+ <li>travel expenses for contributors
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+ willing to attend the Buildroot Developers
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+ Meeting, and not covered by their employer to do
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+ so;</li>
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+ <li>renting servers and services used to host the
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+ Buildroot infrastructure.</li>
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+ </ul>
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+
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+ <p>The bylaws of the association are available
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+ in <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/master/statuts_fr.txt">French</a>
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+ (official) and
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+ in <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/statutes_en.txt">English</a>
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+ (unofficial translation). The association was declared on
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+ March 14, 2016 to the <em>Préfecture de Haute-Garonne</em>
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+ (France) and is registered under the n°W313024278. See this
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+ official <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/pdf/Recepisse_CR.pdf">receipt</a>
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+ from the French authorities.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Our accounting is fully public, including the bank
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+ account summaries,
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+ see <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>. Numerous
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+ other administrative documents related to the association
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+ are available on
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+ its <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/">Github
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+ repository</a></p>
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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+
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+ <div class="panel panel-primary">
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+ <div class="panel-heading">Becoming a member</div>
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+ <div class="panel-body">
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+
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+ <p>To become a member, an individual or a company simply has
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+ to pay its yearly membership. For an individual, the minimum
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+ membership fee per year is 10 EUR. For a company, the
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+ minimum membership fee per year is 150 EUR. Individuals and
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+ companies are free to give more than the minimum
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+ required.</p>
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+
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+ <p>The membership is valid for the current civil year, i.e
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+ any membership fee paid in 2019 is valid through December 31,
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+ 2019.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Once the membership fee is received, it will be listed in
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+ the
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+ association <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>
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+ files, which serve as the official list of
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+ members. Therefore, members accept that their name and the
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+ amount of their membership fee is made public.</p>
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+
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+ <p>There are two possibilities to pay the membership
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+ fee:</p>
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+
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+ <ul>
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+
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+ <li>A direct wire-transfer to the association bank
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+ account. Since the bank account is located in France, this
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+ is completely free of charge for any person or company
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+ located in the European Union. The IBAN number of the
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+ association bank account is <code>FR53 2004 1010 1615 0958
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+ 0P03 772</code>.</li>
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+
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+ <li>A Paypal payment to the association Paypal account,
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+ whose address
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+ is <code>buildroot-association@lists.buildroot.org</code>.</li>
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+
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+ </ul>
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+
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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+
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+ <div class="panel panel-primary">
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+ <div class="panel-heading">Sponsoring the project</div>
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+ <div class="panel-body">
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+
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+ <p>Companies willing to help the Buildroot project can do so
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+ by making a donation to the <em>Buildroot
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+ Association</em>. In exchange for these donations, companies
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+ will be listed on our <a href="/sponsors.html">Sponsors</a>
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+ page and will be thanked in our release announcements.</p>
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+
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+ <p>As the <em>Buildroot Association</em> is a legal entity
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+ registered in France, it is able to deliver a bill and/or
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+ receipt.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Please
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+ contact <a href="mailto:buildroot-association@lists.buildroot.org">buildroot-association@lists.buildroot.org</a>
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+ if you are a company interested in making a donation.</p>
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+
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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+</div>
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+
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+<!--#include file="footer.html" -->
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