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On Monday 09 August 2004 18:29, Joshua Brindle wrote: |
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> Why not hold off and see what kind of donations we get once we have the |
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> nfp established and then talk about auxillary funds after that? |
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it is already established. As far as a 501(c)(6) is concerned, you are one |
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the minute you qualify for one, the IRS filing is a formality. To begin |
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with, we need $500 just to open the bank account. We have everything else we |
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need for that already. Once the account is opened, we can create a paypal |
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account and link it. It would be nice to start raising donations right now |
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to have a comfort blanket (say if one of the servers craps out). |
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> aside from that, I agree with Sven's hesitations on this matter, and |
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> thirdly do we really have the infrastructure/developers to provide a |
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> service that people pay for (and in turn expect a quality service with |
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> no downtime and fast turn around), and if so why aren't we already doing |
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> it? |
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I don't think charging for an exclusive product is a good idea. but that's my |
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own opinion.. |
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Cheers, |
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-C |
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