Quoting Petros ([email protected]):

> I guess the reason for a legal entity is to simplify or enable:

Gosh, I've been through all this before.

> 1. Insurance

Easy to say without pricing it.  I'm guessing that if you ever did,
you'd find that general liabiity insurance for a non-profit association
would be (1) so very prohibitively and astoundingly expensive in annual
premiums that you would give up on the idea, and (2) narrowly written to
cover only the directors and enumerated key officers in the performance
of their delineated duties.  If you imagined that it would automagically
cover all activities of volunteers in the organisation, you would be
sadly mistaken.

> 2. Sponsoring
> 3. Hiring of venues etc.
> 4. A public voice
> 5. A president to blame;-)

None of those is particularly improved by incorporation.  (If you
believe otherwise, please state the grounds for your belief.)

> Okay, maybe 1 to 4 are valid. What else?

Near as I can tell, not a single one of them is.

I've seen several LUGs make face this issue and proceed based on
horrific misinformation.  I'm sorry to say, you are trotting out many of
the usual bad arguments.

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