Hey Members, It's upon the intention what NLUG can be or wants to be. I was satisfied with the current setup (which is I think the category when "geeks get together and educate each other"), but it's fine if it tries to grow somewhere.
I'm involved in other user's group too. I'm co-founder of the Java UG. We are without any budget, and we don't want to touch any money at this point (maybe this will change). We don't even have a roaster! We even had to turn down some presenters, who wanted funding for their hotel stay. Whoever wants to present should fund their stay too. Despite of that we grow pretty much. Our first 3 meetings (2010 Sept-November) were in the MRB III actually, but with very few attendants. Now VACO sponsors us with the meeting place and food. Parking is better in Brentwood than at Vanderbilt so I let this change although it may be not ideal for me, I won't bike to Brentwood. But if NLUG wants to go that way and have food too, you can go to VACO, it sponsors other user's groups too, and they are not intrusive at all. On the other hand I'm also involved with the .NET UG. Our current president is forming some kind of non-profit organization. As a secretary I had to contribute my CV for that goal. You can contact David Neal about the details (what kind of organization is going on, etc. I don't know anything about the details), maybe sharing some experiences and ideas can help. You shouldn't have any preconception because it's a .NET UG, many programmers use open source technologies, and actually lot's of their setup is rather like UNIX than Windows (vim, VS with NuGet and Ivy, etc). Let me know if you need help with contacting David Neal. Csaba ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of andrew mcelroy [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nlug] NLUG: from Outer Space! (or at least in the future) On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Drew from Zhrodague <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > A non-profit status usually means you'll accept funding, or provide a > service/function for payment. Does NLUG need funding, and for what? I > suspect producing distro DVDs, literature prints, and possibly > PCs-for-the-poor, linux training class space rental, I dunno. At the very least, NLUG needs $20/year to file its annual report with the state, in order to remain a corporation. I don't know of any other mandatory costs. Since I run another nonprofit in the city (Nashville 2600), I'm in a position to know what the barebones costs are. This is excluding the filing you should be doing with the charitable solitiations and gaming board. Also there are federal requirements. I am assuming you file your own 990. If NLUG became a non profit again, it would probably behoove this organization to network with the center for non profit management. There might be cross training opportunities/open source outreach potential there. In the past, NLUG has done a run of Tshirts/polos. That is another possibility, if people would like to have NLUG-branded clothing to wear about the community. (Excess above cost goes back to the corporation.) Howard has a good resource for embroidered polos. This is a good idea. I might need to talk to howard about embroidery for my non profit/public charity in madison,tn. Andrew -Tilghman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:nlug-talk%[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
