[svlug] officer status Re: Announcement: VP transition

[Lisa]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:27:55PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Warren Turkal (wturkal at gmail.com):
> 
> > I am not sure that I agree with that. The point of a registered agent
> > is to have an emergency address to contact a business.
> 
> No, it is not.  It is to have a place for service of legal process in the
> event that someone wishes to sue the organisation.
> 
> (I used to work at CPA and law firms, passed the CPA exam, and had a
> career in that field before I switched to network consulting.)
> 
> > A 501(c)3 is tax exempt.
> 
> We've been through all this.  The group turned it down, about a year and
> a half ago.  If you want to know all about incorporation, various IRS
> tax-exempt statuses, insurance, and all of that folderol, I don't mind
> sitting down with you and going over it yet again.  Or you can see a
> preview of some of what I would say in the LDP's Linux User Group HOWTO,
> which I maintain:
> 
> http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.1
> 
> > It's not as bad as it sounds. It usually just means that someone needs
> > to file papers and pay the fee ($20 in TN) once per year.
> 
> In California, it's also $20, is biennial, and is Secretary of State
> form SI-100.  I do it for several groups for which I'm treasurer that
> have an actual _reason_ for incorporating.  
> 
> SVLUG has no rational reason.  _We've been through this._  Please, can
> we spare everyone the headache of going through it _again_?

Rick,

Do you know if there are previous discussions about this in the
archives?  Or was this all done face to face?

Lisa