[TriLUG] Upcoming vote on TriLUG non-profit status

[Christopher Blackmon]

IIRC, we have several ham's in the group.. anybody a member of RARS?  They're a 
501(c)(3) incorporated group... maybe someone
there would know what we needed.  We could try asking there.

Christopher.





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From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 5:15:58 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Upcoming vote on TriLUG non-profit status

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Justis Peters wrote:

> You and I are saying the same thing. If we choose to go the route of "flying 
>under the radar", I would want to know specifically where the threshold is.

OK :-)

> That said, I still think we should get our 501(c)(3) classification back and 
>continue operating as an incorporated non-profit.

I'm all for it, but who's going to do it?

I don't know anything about it, can't help and won't be able to monitor if a 
good job is being done. From the postings in this thread, most people here are 
in a similar state.

If we go 501(c)(3), we need a pool of people who understand the process well 
enough that it won't go off the rails into the indefinite future (cf putting a 
ml/webpage server on the internet). One person in the club is not enough. I'd 
say we'd need three to be safe.

To go 501(c)(3) someone has to stand up and let us know they're doing to do it 
or else we have to pay money. (Money is acceptable to me on the assumption that 
we'll cover the extra cost with extra donations. I pay to have someone do my 
taxes, I have no problem with TriLUG paying for its filings.)

>From what I can tell we don't have even one person willing to carry the 
501(c)(3) and we haven't decided to pay money (an estimate of the annual cost 
would be helpful, but presumably $100-300).

Before we can vote to go 501(c)(3), the SC (or someone) has to present a plan to 
show that it will work and work into the indefinite future. We can't vote to go 
501(c)(3) if there's no way of doing it. AFAICS we don't have the 501(c)(3) 
option.

Joe
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