I'll take on registering for tax-exempt status, if no one else has started. The docs were mailed to my house from the SoS office, so I have all the material on hand necessary to file.
-JM On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Sam Johnston <s...@samj.net> wrote: > Ok so the big news is that we exist as California corporation C3412240 per > http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/ (see attached). We now need to register for tax > exemption<http://www.ftb.ca.gov/businesses/bus_structures/Exempt_Organizations.shtml>in > California (apparently within 90 days of filing — e.g. within 3 weeks). > We'll also want to start looking at federal 501(c)3 registration but > according to Sam's colleague at Outercurve who I met at Open World Forum, > Stephen Walli(?), we might need assistance with this as it's got a lot > harder recently. Setting up a bank account is also probably a good idea, but > only once we're ready to handle the associated paperwork — handling money > adds complexity and thus far I've just been paying for everything myself. > > Aside from the paperwork we'll want to put together some sort of a go to > market plan in the coming weeks, for execution starting January? Not much is > going to happen through December anyway but if any of you have any ideas > about what we can do between now and year end I'm all ears — incorporating > any feedback we've received and pushing out the 1.0 version of the Open > Cloud Principles obviously needs to happen soon. We'll then need to work on > getting vendors to support them and customers to ask for them — once we get > a few on board we should get critical mass pretty quickly. > > Noirin: if you've got the spare cycles and are up for some program > management then that's great. I was looking for > software<https://twitter.com/#%21/samj/status/125166958848118785>to draw up a > plan as recently as this weekend, but I'm still averaging 3+ > countries a week (Switzerland, Croatia & UK this week) which makes it hard > for me to find more than a couple of hours a week to contribute, at least > until January when an open position at work will be filled. In any case I > see us all as equals (despite some of us having official positions as > required by california corporations code) and am happy to see us sharing the > load. > > I'll be in California for the latter half of November & first few days of > December so let's try to tee up a face to face for those who are in town, > and possibly an SGM to adopt the Open Cloud Principles, appoint any new > members, and deal with any other business. > > Congratulations for getting this far — I think 2012 will be our year! > > Cheers, > > Sam > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:29 PM, John Mark Walker > <johnm...@johnmark.org>wrote: > >> Thanks, Noirin! And thank you, Sam. >> >> I can commit 4-5 hours per week to get this going. Shall we have a weekly >> review call? At least until we generate enough activity to get to some >> critical mass. >> >> Eventually, I think we will need to pay someone to be the PM, but I'm not >> sure we're in a place where we can ask for $$$. >> >> -JM >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Sam Ramji <sra...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> Awesome, Noirin! >>> >>> I can commit time to do the journalist/press interviews as I've been >>> doing, and can participate in a weekly call + take an action per week. >>> >>> I can't reasonably commit to project management right now though. >>> >>> Thanks to John Mark for lighting the fire - we need to get this thing >>> going and that takes time. >>> >>> When we (me, Miguel de Icaza, Bill Staples, Stephanie Boesch, Shaun >>> Walker, and Mark Stone) started the Outercurve Foundation I put in 10+ hours >>> a week and my other board members put in at least 4-5 until we had a paid >>> executive director; even then we had Mark Stone as a paid FTE. I think the >>> first thing we need to do is share what time and capacity we're each willing >>> to commit towards the various OCI projects. That way Noirin knows what >>> she's working with and can point out where we're falling short. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Sam >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Nóirín Plunkett <noi...@apache.org>wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:00 PM, John Mark Walker < >>>> johnm...@johnmark.org> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Is Noirin on this list? Is she a possibility? >>>> >>>> Actually, the timing on this is pretty good for me :-) I am here, and >>>> finally starting to emerge from the chaos of the last year. Happy to >>>> hear if there's anyone else who has the bandwidth too though. >>>> >>>> Noirin >>>> >>> >>> >> >
