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> Why not just have Gentoo NFP employ you in your cd-burning, |
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> t-shirt-printing capacity, and have the NFP pay you a wage..? |
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Eventually, I think it would be great for the NFP to run the Store, and pay |
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someone a wage to fulfill t-shirt and CD orders. |
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Why I'm not arranging that now is because it adds a lot more complexity |
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(especially for me personally) to the NFP transition, which I'm |
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intentionally trying to keep as simple as possible. Like I said, if anyone |
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is interested in making a serious commitment to actually running the Store |
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under the NFP, I'm willing to eventually transfer it to the NFP. Since I'm |
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not planning to make a career out of CD and t-shirt sales, I'd rather not |
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take the time and expense to make some kind of arrangment between the NFP |
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and me right now. But let's get the NFP set up first. |
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Until we (me/NFP) are ready to make a Store transition, I will continue |
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running the Store, and the simplest way to do this is to just allow things |
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to continue as they have. What I expect will happen is that the NFP will |
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find much better sources of funding, and then they really won't be |
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interested in the store. Then maybe some Gentoo developers can take it over, |
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or run it for the NFP when I have something else to move on to. |
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The Store needs to continue running to pay about $7-$10K USD of upcoming |
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legal costs. It will pay for the NFP's initial legal expenses as well as all |
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expenses associated with its application for 501(c)(6) status. |
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I'm looking to get the NFP set up next week if possible. It will take about |
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six months to receive 501(c)(6) status from the time it is applied for. |
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Hope that helps, |
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Daniel |
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