Actually, incorporating as a non-profit is fairly simple. It's actually getting the tax exempt/non-profit status with the IRS that is time consuming. Jeff On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jacqueline Urick wrote: > Ah yes we do have a treasurer, but we don't have any treasure. There's no > account or anything. We haven't solicited donations and we don't ask for > dues. We're not a registered non-profit. > > I thinking chipping in to buy a new drive would be a great idea. Might be a > good idea to open the offical TCLUG account, maybe then we could have enough > cash to rent a place for our installfest, etc. Since we're not registered as > a non-profit, I don't think anyone would be able to (legally) deduct their > donations. > > ~j > > > > > > > > Third, the drive replacement is going out of Real Time's bottom line. > > > > I for one totally appreciate Real Time, and in perticular Bob's personal > > efforts on behalf of the LUG. But wouldn't it be nice if we all got > > involved? > > > > We can't ALL maintain the mailing list, or web server, etc. But how about > > chipping in and buying a new drive to replace the old one? We do have a > > LUG Treasuror (sp?). We can in theory make donations to the LUG that'll go > > toward new hardware the LUG can use, etc. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >