On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 08:15, Sean Dague wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:14:48PM -0700, Kevin Calman wrote: > > --- Sean Dague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:32:16PM +0000, William B. > > > Keane wrote: > > > > Sean, > > > > > > > > Don't we need by-laws first. > > > > How about calling for an organizing committee? > > > > > > Do you have pointers to by-laws of other LUGs? If > > > so, can you send them to > > > the list? > > > > Here's Austin's: > > http://austinlug.org/staticpages/index.php?page=20020517100547302 > > Article I - NAME > > This organization shall be known as Austin Linux Group, Inc., a nonprofit > educational corporation. > > ... > > MHVLUG isn't a legal entity yet. So I would propose that we elect officers > first, and that one of their main jobs from now till the end of the year is > the process of actually incorporating. This process requires bylaws for the > corporation. > > It seems like we have a chicken and an egg problem here. I think officers > first, and incorportation (and hence formal bylaws) second, makes more sense > to me, as articles of incorporation need to include "board members". Mike, > correct me if I'm wrong.
It is true that you need 3 initial directors or board members before you can incorporate, at least in NY. As far as by-laws, for the incorporation, you only need a mission statement, so they wouldn't be required. > I've also tended to model MHVLUG after NYLUG, which is a very successful LUG > in NYC. All they have is the following: > http://www.nylug.org/aboutus/index.shtml, so I'm not sure that we need > anything more than that until/unless we incorporate. > > Thoughts? > > -Sean > -- Michael Chase-Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center Poughkeepsie, NY Advanced Linux Response Team http://www.ibm.com/linux _______________________________________________ mhvlug mailing list - http://mhvlug.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.dague.net/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug
