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  6. <div class="panel-heading">Association</div>
  7. <div class="panel-body">
  8. <p>The Buildroot open-source project is supported by a
  9. non-profit organization called the <strong>Buildroot
  10. Association</strong>. The goal of this non-profit
  11. organization is <strong>to engage actions to promote, help
  12. develop and democratise the Buildroot project</strong>.</p>
  13. <p>This non-profit organization is registered as a legal
  14. entity in France, more precisely as an <em>association loi
  15. 1901</em>.</p>
  16. <p>This organization can receive funding from members,
  17. donors and sponsors. This funding is then used to pay for:</p>
  18. <ul>
  19. <li>the meeting rooms used during the Buildroot
  20. Developers Meeting twice per year;</li>
  21. <li>travel expenses for contributors
  22. willing to attend the Buildroot Developers
  23. Meeting, and not covered by their employer to do
  24. so;</li>
  25. <li>renting servers and services used to host the
  26. Buildroot infrastructure.</li>
  27. </ul>
  28. <p>The bylaws of the association are available
  29. in <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/master/statuts_fr.txt">French</a>
  30. (official) and
  31. in <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/statutes_en.txt">English</a>
  32. (unofficial translation). The association was declared on
  33. March 14, 2016 to the <em>Préfecture de Haute-Garonne</em>
  34. (France) and is registered under the n°W313024278. See this
  35. official <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/pdf/Recepisse_CR.pdf">receipt</a>
  36. from the French authorities.</p>
  37. <p>Our accounting is fully public, including the bank
  38. account summaries,
  39. see <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>. Numerous
  40. other administrative documents related to the association
  41. are available on
  42. its <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/">Github
  43. repository</a></p>
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  47. <div class="panel-heading">Becoming a member</div>
  48. <div class="panel-body">
  49. <p>To become a member, an individual or a company simply has
  50. to pay its yearly membership. For an individual, the minimum
  51. membership fee per year is 10 EUR. For a company, the
  52. minimum membership fee per year is 150 EUR. Individuals and
  53. companies are free to give more than the minimum
  54. required.</p>
  55. <p>The membership is valid for the current civil year, i.e
  56. any membership fee paid in 2019 is valid through December 31,
  57. 2019.</p>
  58. <p>Once the membership fee is received, it will be listed in
  59. the
  60. association <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>
  61. files, which serve as the official list of
  62. members. Therefore, members accept that their name and the
  63. amount of their membership fee is made public.</p>
  64. <p>There are two possibilities to pay the membership
  65. fee:</p>
  66. <ul>
  67. <li>A direct wire-transfer to the association bank
  68. account. Since the bank account is located in France, this
  69. is completely free of charge for any person or company
  70. located in the European Union. The IBAN number of the
  71. association bank account is <code>FR53 2004 1010 1615 0958
  72. 0P03 772</code>.</li>
  73. <li>A Paypal payment to the association Paypal account,
  74. whose address
  75. is <code>buildroot-association@buildroot.org</code>.</li>
  76. </ul>
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  80. <div class="panel-heading">Sponsoring the project</div>
  81. <div class="panel-body">
  82. <p>Companies willing to help the Buildroot project can do so
  83. by making a donation to the <em>Buildroot
  84. Association</em>. In exchange for these donations, companies
  85. will be listed on our <a href="/sponsors.html">Sponsors</a>
  86. page and will be thanked in our release announcements.</p>
  87. <p>As the <em>Buildroot Association</em> is a legal entity
  88. registered in France, it is able to deliver a bill and/or
  89. receipt.</p>
  90. <p>Please
  91. contact <a href="mailto:buildroot-association@buildroot.org">buildroot-association@buildroot.org</a>
  92. if you are a company interested in making a donation.</p>
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