On 7/31/2014 9:13 PM, Matt Simmons wrote:
It was decided after LOPSA-East of this year that PICC should shut down
for reasons personal to PICC management. Since LOPSA local chapters
aren't incorporated (or at least, these aren't), it's unrealistic to
expect individual members of the community to assume a financial risk of
tens of thousands of dollars to organize a conference, so when
evaluating what could be done, the idea was raised to have LOPSA itself
be responsible for its own conferences, entirely. Still, the financial
risk is immense. LOPSA-East costs between $60,000 and $70,000 to put on,
and that's double what LOPSA has in the bank. Not to mention that it's
very likely to be considered "unrelated business income", and thus it
could put LOPSA's 501c3 status in jeopardy.
Very likely? I find that surprising. We have an existence proof of the
opposite by way of Usenix with its various conferences. Why do you think
this is very likely when Usenix has been running conferences to fund
other initiatives for many years? How, also, could it be considered
unrelated since it is part of the core charter of LOPSA to provide
education of one form or another?
I don't dispute the financial risk at all, fwiw.
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