[olug-colo] The Legal Mumbo-Jumbo

Brian Roberson roberson at bstc.net
Fri Apr 3 21:24:55 EDT 2009


I think the other way around the "services rendered" stuff is to call  
them membership fee's...

What services does SCOLA charge for? I think there is also a  
requirement for a "Board of Directors" with a 501c3 (again... I may be  
talking out my ass, just something we need to sort out legally)




On Apr 3, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Charles.Bird wrote:

> SCOLA is nonprofit, they charge for services and get money in  
> donations :)
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> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Brian Roberson <roberson at bstc.net>  
> wrote:
> So, here is where we need to tap into a non profit lawyer for
> information. I think there is a problem with charging for services
> rendered when you are a non profit. I dont see Adam Haeder on the list
> yet, but I think we may be able to tap into some resources via the AIM
> institute for this legal help..
>
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> Adam?
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> On Apr 3, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Dan Clough wrote:
>
> > Yes, and that's why I'm unsure that a nonprofit is really the best
> > direction to go with this.  If this gets to the point where we need
> > full-time people to manage it, nonprofit status might complicate
> > matters.
> >
> > Since I'm working on articles, does someone want to write up a
> > business plan?
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Roberson <roberson at bstc.net>
> >
> > Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:04:27
> > To: Olug Community colo project<olug-colo at olug.org>
> > Subject: Re: [olug-colo] The Legal Mumbo-Jumbo
> >
> >
> > LOL...
> >
> >
> > I will have input on just about everything, so you can put me down  
> as
> > "Architect" ; or "Chief Propeller Head"
> >
> > :)
> >
> >
> > Before we get too far down the road of any contract signing and/or
> > Article creation, we need to all agree on a charter, aka Business
> > Plan. The up and down side here, is the fact that there is a
> > possibility of actually making money out of this, and we have to  
> make
> > sure we are aware of the beneficiaries. I am all for philanthropy,  
> but
> > I think everyone that puts in time should be duly compensated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> >
> >> I'll have my hands in the network infrastructure.
> >>
> >> Luke-Jr wrote:
> >>> I don't really know how normal businesses work in the real world,
> >>> but what
> >>> about something where we have managers of specific areas. For
> >>> example,
> >>> (assuming I'm alone in this area) I might be the OpenVZ manager,
> >>> and someone
> >>> else might be the Xen manager; someone would be the web design
> >>> manager, and so
> >>> on...
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Phil Brutsche
> >> phil at brutsche.us
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