Derek et al, Your questions were great, and the membership definitely needs to know the answers to them. We've got a draft email that's probably going to be out today with hopefully enough information to allow everyone to make informed opinions. The difficulty is that since tomorrow is our Face to Face, the West Coast contingent are on planes right now, and I'm still on this train.
We're not being secretive about this - it's just that we really wanted to get our ducks in a row before presenting things to the membership, as Brandon suggested - otherwise an email thread like this would have happened. It did anyway, but I still like the idea of operating in the open rather than going into an executive session to talk about potential plans. In an ideal world, Board Meetings would be able to be attended by any member who wanted to, but right now, we haven't worked out the "right" way to do that while maintaining the ability to actually get things done. In the meantime, try to be patient and we'll get a statement out as soon as we can. Thanks everyone, --Matt On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I think - as a member - a question that is obvious here comes to mind: >> >> *- How much does forming this sub-corporation cost?* >> *- How much does all the lawyering to figure out the formation/legalities >> cost?* >> *- How much overhead is involved in managing a completely separate second >> entity, cost-wise?* >> >> as compared to >> >> *- How much revenue does LOPSA (the 501c3) actually see from the >> conferences.* >> > > I expect that collecting the answers to those questions so that an > *informed* discussion can take place is the whole point of the current > board activity. It's not like setting up such a subsidiary is something > that can be done in a handful of board meetings, unless you're a large > enough corporation that you can delegate the real work to a small army of > lawyers and administrators. > > > Agreed. I guess my perception was it went further in the board meetings > than I would have expected without it having been mentioned as a > possibility in a LOPSAgram, etc. > > Although those particular questions should require any significant work at > all. > > D > > >
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