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Incoroporate as a nonprofit organization #12

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brettneese opened this issue Dec 19, 2015 · 4 comments
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Incoroporate as a nonprofit organization #12

brettneese opened this issue Dec 19, 2015 · 4 comments

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@brettneese
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There was a lot of talk about this in #4, but this seems like a better place to discuss it. Some have suggested that HH ought to form a legal entity to protect things like ie domain names. This isn't actually a terribly difficult process but it will take time and some money and is something that should be done extremely carefully (#fuckitshipit is terrible legal advice.)

What are our thoughts on this?

(Also, to be clear, I mean a nonprofit corporation, not a 501(c)3 specifically. That can be discussed in another issue, but I don't think it's necessary to go that far given our expected capital flows which are presumably less than what it would take to get the proper paperwork together to become a 501(c)3 -- essentially, 501(c)3 status is something that the IRS assigns to an already existing organization.)

@hellyeah
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hellyeah commented Jan 4, 2016

Thank you, @rubinovitz, for pinging me about this.

This seems like a good idea.

Should a legal venture be set up, I would be willing to sign to the fact I have resigned from active admin actions and will only act to re-add admins on the board should something happen and they be removed.

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nsgomez commented Jan 5, 2016

I've supported the idea of having a legal framework behind the administration of the group, and it'd be nifty for resolving #7 since it'd most likely require a board of directors to vote on CoC changes, and allow Dave to stay on as an officer with no actual admin power.

So yeah, +1

@rubinovitz
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[Hey all, dealing with a death in the family that came out of nowhere.
Excited about @hellyeah joining the convo but will probably not be able to
get more words in until later this week. Definitely still here and want to
work on this!]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016, 2:19 PM Nelson Gomez [email protected] wrote:

I've supported the idea of having a legal framework behind the
administration of the group, and it'd be nifty for resolving #7
#7 since it'd most likely
require a board of directors to vote on CoC changes, and allow Dave to stay
on as an officer with no actual admin power.


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@rubinovitz
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Hi all,

Thanks, Dave!

I am working on the bylaws for a cooperative and hope to get them out this
week. Currently basing them off of these and
these.
Also looking a lot at the Node.js Foundation.

I think these could be mega helpful in defining new purposes and roles in
HH, along with ensuring a future in which more people can contribute and be
rewarded for their efforts in doing so.

When I have my preliminary draft done I can share it and we can go from
there (although feel free to share your own proposed bylaws in the mean
time!).

P.S. Sorry markdown links failed :(

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:52 PM, JB Rubinovitz [email protected] wrote:

[Hey all, dealing with a death in the family that came out of nowhere.
Excited about @hellyeah joining the convo but will probably not be able to
get more words in until later this week. Definitely still here and want to
work on this!]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016, 2:19 PM Nelson Gomez [email protected]
wrote:

I've supported the idea of having a legal framework behind the
administration of the group, and it'd be nifty for resolving #7
#7 since it'd most
likely require a board of directors to vote on CoC changes, and allow Dave
to stay on as an officer with no actual admin power.


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