[aklug] Re: FSF Membership

From: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net>
Date: Fri Dec 30 2016 - 05:44:08 AKST

That's okay, I just meant to encourage individual members to join up.

On 12/30/2016 01:25 AM, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>
> In order to have a bank account to be able to pay this, we would need
> to set a non-profit corporation again. While I have no issues with
> this conceptually, our problems in the past have always been that few
> want to pay dues or do the work necessary to keep it going. Some have
> been militantly against the required dues this needs in the past.
>
> In order to collect dues and not run afoul of the IRS, we need to set
> up a nonprofit corporation. Someone has to keep up the paperwork with
> the IRS, the filings with the state, the business license.
>
> We did get this set up once a few years ago. Only a couple of us were
> donating any money. We did have one person that had the paperwork
> figured out. He has since retired to Texas due to medical issues.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016, 6:14 PM Christopher Howard
> <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net
> <mailto:christopher.howard@qlfiles.net>> wrote:
>
> If no one objects, I want to put in a brief plug for FSF membership:
>
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/a-message-from-rms-support-the-free-software-foundation
>
> An associate membership is only $10/month and comes with a bunch
> of cool
> benefits, like 20% discount at the FSF store, 5% discount at
> Thinkpenguin.com, and a snazzy FSF jabber account:
>
> http://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits
>
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