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

[Magnus <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 01:15 PM, Barry Roomberg wrote:

> Non Profit setup?
>
> Painful!  Bylaws, officers, accounting, etc, etc, etc.

Been there, done that, nowhere near as bad as you suggest.

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

With respect, I think your perception is wrong.  I was involved with 
TriLUG for several years before coming up here, and was an officer 
until the day I moved to PA.  Most of the business of the LUG is 
handled in IRC or email when votes do need to be taken up.  The one guy 
who has a lot on his shoulders is the treasurer, but the paperwork 
required is similar to balancing a checkbook and filling out the IRS 
"short form".

The biggest pain is the initial incorporation.

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C. Magnus Hedemark
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