Barry Roomberg on Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:17:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Non-Profit -- was The Next Step? -- was Community Service Project (Devil's advocate)


On Saturday 12 July 2003 12:40 pm, Paul wrote:
> As Magnus pointed out, becoming an official non-profit organization
> might be important.  That sounds like a lot of effort to go through for
> one LUG.  Since other LUGs seem to come up with similarly great ideas,
> what if a multi-LUG non-profit were formed?

Non Profit setup?

Painful!  Bylaws, officers, accounting, etc, etc, etc.

Meeting after meeting after meeting into the middle of the night.
For political crap, not technical learning.

Been there with the PC Club of South Jersey about 15 years ago.

Huge amount of hassle and responsibility.

Don't take it lightly.

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