Well, Blackcoins is said to be "a clone of mintcoin". It doesn't seem to damage it much:)
Second, a legally registered foundation is not that common. Definitely not a prime (think bitcoin), but still
Finally, being the first is not enough (eGold and microcents were there before bitcoin, EDO-RAM was there before SDRAM). It does give an edge but just that: an edge.

Yes please. I will monitor mintcointalk.com in priority.

Crypto are off-limit if sent as such (which doesn't impede publication, it is just not mandatory). But if cryptos are converted to fiat, it works. Granted, conversion comes with a loss of money (two losses, because I will not use MINT to USD exchange, but MINT to BTC to EUR since the Fund will be in the Eurozone), but it may also increase legitimacy. This is a work-in-progress, inputs welcomed (here http://www.mintcointalk.com/index.php?topic=400)

Regarding reforesting being another coin's area: it is just a coincidence. We happen to have an interesting scheme here (someone working on this field and able to get a matching contribution). If it have been about helping organic agriculture in South America, it would have been the same.

Not necessarily. The French law for association loi 1901 (VERY common in France) doesn't require financial information to be public (same goes for private company, those which are not on the stock exchange) - the only public thing is the name, location and goal of the association.

But this won't be an association (association is similar to charities in UK, don't know for US). This will be an endowment fund. And endowment fund ALWAYS have public accountancy.

So, bottom line: acceptance2, you are right here

The French administration is as public as the US or Finnish administration. But I guess you mean: will actual movement of money be public?
To this question, the answer is: the "general interest" status (which makes a Fund eligible for tax-deduction) requires financial transparency

For the gory details, here's the law:
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexteArticle.do;jsessionid=BB1390703E5A853F096A1039ECE78975.tpdjo04v_3?idArticle=LEGIARTI000019285221&cidTexte=LEGITEXT000019284897&dateTexte=20140322
This part in particular:

In plain English: at least once an year, the fund must publish financial results. If there is more than 10.000€ of ressources at the end of the fiscal year, an external auditor must be mandated too.

If I do something illegal, like abusing peoples confidence in a harmful way (asking for fiat money is), then yes. Bad accountancy, abuse of power... may also bring me to jail. Much like any registered company everwhere in the world.

Of course, if the Fund only get mintcoins, the problem is less important. Abuse of power would not lead to jail, but more to get a fine. Now, if EUR or other fiat are involved (for instance, mintcoin to euro), then going to jail is possible again (although unlikely; a fine is more probable).

Needless to say, I will need support, people. I'm not talking of financial support, but moral support. This is quite a burden, even for experienced people, to run a registered organisation.

Exactly like a startup tries to succeed in a crowded environment: find a way to be unique, like, for instance, actually donating money to a project.
Example: the Northern California reforestation effort could get a matching contribution from the State (tokyopotato for details). Small project, small but actual money. The community echoes this and look for other projets, whilst in the meantime our beloved dev continue getting merchant adoption.

To be clear:
1 . The Fund is not registered yet. Monday, I will go to the administration and get it registered (it will take one month to take effect)
2. It will be registered as in "if something goes wrong, the person held accountable can go to jail". Guess who will be this person? That should give you an idea of my commitment.
3. The higher the mintcoin price, the less of the premine will have to be used (nah, the French administration won't accept mintcoins )

They WILL be donated in FIAT, since cryptos have no legal value yet - at least, as long as corporations want tax-deductability.

Internally, we'll receive fiat and convert it to mint. Hopefully this will drive up the price of mintcoin. Then a project will either be paid in mintcoin or in fiat (thus, a second conversion). We might propose a bonus for those projects willing to be paid in Mintcoin. Legally speaking, this will have to be investigated.

For now, the primary reason for an official fund is legitimacy/visibility.

Exactly. But I am deeply aware this won't happen anytime soon. We'll need to have a history of successful project first (Northern California reforestation comes to my mind).

ShibeonBarkmont is the one supposed to handle everything reddit-related (at least, this is what is on my file). ShibeonBarkmont, are you there? If someone else wishes to handle Reddit-related things, please tell me, I will update my list.

I understand the necessity for this, but I don't have the motivation to do it myself. bjmillican4 and tokyopotato mentioned they are good at writing documentation.

This is dev thing, I can't answer. I believe the idea is to prevent short-term mentality (long-term mentality is a part of sustainable development).

We have one potentially interested. Being faithful to my own policy, I won't mention name before it is done.

I am not much into reddit so I did not think about it. But yes, reddit shall be updated too. Who will be in charge of this? We need a CM for reddit. So far, we have these potential candidates (that's the whole CM team, save for chris who is devoted to mintcointalk.com since he created it):
ShibeonBarkmont
Jany8293
Sylon
kopam
greentea

1. For various projects related to sustainable developments. The list of projects and the priorisations of action will be decided by the community. Final decision (from a shortlist) may be decided by an "inner core" (Board of Directors, or Working Board, legally speaking - this will depend on the amount of control we want to have upon this). I think we should enforce every project to be announced on one particular topic on mintcointalk (for easier referencing) but that's just a proposal.

2. See my PM.

For other people reading this: the reason why I am secretive is that I don't like to announce things which may not happen. No other reasons. If announcing prematurely could help things to happen, I would happily announce them straight away.

I told you "wait for next week"

One thing that may not be clear for everyone: we are talking about an officially sanctionned, legally-recognised Fund under the French jurisdiction (with all the tax-deductible thing also). Not a Facebook fan page or the like.
If you want to read (or stress-test) the bylaws, follow the mintcointalk page link above.

If someone does it. I won't, too much other things to do. But please feel free. A newsletter à la NXT could be another idea.

It is for mintcoin and devoted to sustainable development. Granted, Dogecoin foundation had a Doge4water initative, but that was just one initiative among others and Dogecoin doesn't have any environmentalism focus by itself (don't make me wrong, the Foundation will not be SOLELY about sustainable development - it will be its main focus, not the only one).
Apart from that, we have some projects already going on. I will talk about some, whilst some other cannot be talked about yet.

By the way, there is nothing wrong about stolen idea; for start because they are not stolen, since they are not protected; second, because the memetic world is all about imitaiton, as Voltaire famously said it 300 hundred years ago - the Not-Invented-Here syndromes makes more harm than good and what matters is not the innovation, it is the implementation.

Alright (I am getting impatient, I decide after just three persons )

The main topic will be on mintcointalk but one of the first duty will be to keep some intersperced discussions on bitcointalk for getting some newcomers to know it (I will hardly be able to handle this, this will be a job for the commmunity management team).

Here is the text I just wrote on mintcointalk.com. Since this is the first one, I will copy it in its entirety but please reply there in the future (that's topic #400, btw): Mintcoin Fund.