I will look into registering the LUG as non-profit. I looked into it a few months ago and did find the forms on the web, but they never found their way to my printer.

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Austad, Jay wrote:

> Actually, to get non-profit status, you just go into the building to the
> left of the state capital, fill out a form, and submit it.  There's no
> charge for a non-profit.  I think you just need the names of the people
> involved.  You can also download the form from the state website I think.
> 
> I don't think it's that much trouble.  Although, my taxes are complicated
> enough as it is, so my name would stay far far away from that application.
> :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc A. Ohmann [mailto:marc at ds6.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:28 AM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: LUG Involvement (Was: Re: [TCLUG] Mailing list server:
> Flame emails??)
> 
> 
> I would be in favor of something like think geek.  We could have some
> t-shirts, mugs, ... made with a tclug logo and make a slight profit off the
> sales.  At least its voluntary.  The t-shirts would also help get the word
> out about the group.  With a couple of us wearing them around the U, I'm
> sure we would start to see some new faces.
> 
> Of course this system would take a lot of work by someone to organize and
> file wit the gov.
> 
> Marc
> 
>  On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:10:05PM -0500, Yaron wrote:
> >   Hello,
> > 
> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > I'm leaving this as a very, very vague and general proposal on purpose.
> > I'm sure we all want the LUG to be non-profit and never require any
> > membership fees or stuff like that, but I think it'd be nice to support
> > the LUG. Does anyone think there's a practical way to do this? Can anyone
> > think of other ways individual LUG members can help support the LUG beyond
> > what we already have setup?
> > 
> > -Yaron
> > 
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