On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:40 PM, Doug Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't dispute the financial risk at all, fwiw.
I don’t actually disagree w/ forming a new corp to deal w/ conferences, for purposes of keeping the books separate. It isn’t crazy to have a separate corp for each conference, so that the main org isn’t liable for losses. However, I’m doubting that any hotel would allow you to setup a conference w/o a guarantee of payment from the established corp, so at that point, the entire plan collapses. Does it need to be for profit corp? I haven’t double checked what our charter is lately, but I’m pretty sure we were setup for exactly this kind of thing. Education, and furthering the state of the Sysadmin profession. I can’t see any reason why this would be outside our area. Selling consulting services in the sysadmin trade might.. but an educational conference? not really. Even if it makes a profit, that’s OK. Plenty of non profits make money, especially by running conferences, and use that money to support their other works. Matthew _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
