On 2015-03-17 04:12, Chuck Cole wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Jima >> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 10:11 PM >> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] [ubuntu-us-mn] Penguins Unbound is >> on Meetup! >> >> Chuck, as it's been made abundantly clear (at least to everyone else) >> that the vast majority of the TCLUG membership is completely >> disinterested in obtaining non-profit status, and you >> continue to beat that dead and rotting horse, your dismissal of someone > else's >> commentary as irrelevant or off-topic is pretty hypocritical. >> >> Jima >> >> On 2015-03-14 01:53, Chuck Cole wrote: >>> Irrelevant. Off topic > > Hardly hypocritical: the comment simply was not about the topic of > "Meetups". The original Meetup rules have been relaxed greatly. > > Being non-profit matters a bunch, even if not to TCLUG. I had certainly > noticed the lack of interest among TCLUGers, but lack of non-profit status > is a problem for Penguins since most meeting spaces require non-profit > status to meet there. We had offered to help since Penguins no longer has a > home with TIES. Getting sponsorship is difficult if neither non-profit, nor > an actual group. Repeating yourself years later doesn't change things, Chuck. Stop trying to make a TCLUG non-profit organization happen. It's not going to happen. Jima