It makes life easier if you are a non-profit looking for funding in that there's incentive for someone to donate. In all other respects, a non-profit is as much or more work to set up and run (due to all of the filings you typically have to make in order to prove you are a non-profit and aren't making a profit). I doubt that it's all that different in other locales.
That's not to suggest that it's not a worthwhile sort of thing, but it would seem to me that the overall overhead required to set up and maintain such an entity (and make sure that it wasn't tied to one individual) would be disproportionate to the amount of benefit derived at this point.
I really don't anticipate there being a large outpouring of donations, with the primary source (aside from the leftovers from conference fees) being the proceeds from sales of "the book" based on my gentlemen's agreement with the folks at ida.
Bill
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Marc Dirix wrote:
Ok, I have no clue about how things work with non-profit organisations. Also I don't know how they differ in my country against yours. But somehow it seems it would be easier to manage, and align funding and gifts.