Hi there- I'm happy for your new group, but can you guys take the hbase user dist-list off this conversation, please?
On 11/28/11 2:27 PM, "Craig Dupree" <[email protected]> wrote: >David, > >Please slow down, and let the rest of us have a chance to catch up >with you. You've gone from a simple idea - a group of us getting >together to work on Big Data programming projects - to something that >will require bylaws, and probably a trip or two to a lawyer. Or maybe >lawyers if one can only advise us to what to do to organize the club, >but cannot address any tax liability questions. It's not that I >think any of us would be nefarious, but I have been a member of a club >that was informally run like this. When the organizer died, a lawyer >relative advised his wife to claim the group as a part of the estate, >and to charge us for continued use of the group's name, membership >lists, website, etc. Even without that concern, there are some >immediate concerns. What are the responsibilities of the offices >below? How will the be elected? How long will they serve? > >Craig > >On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:16 PM, David Boney ><[email protected]> wrote: >> An organization meeting for forming an Austin chapter of the ACM Special >> Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD) will >>be >> held Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 7:00 pm at CoSpace. This was formerly >> advertised as Austin Hackers Dojo - Big Data Machine Learning. The >>meeting >> is open to the public and ACM membership is not required. >> Cospace is at the southwest corner of Lamar and Anderson, in a brown >>brick >> L-shaped building called Lamar Gateway. Cospace is upstairs right in the >> crook of the L (there's an elevator and stairs).911 W Anderson Lane >>Suite >> 203 | Austin TX 78757.http://cospaceatx.com/contact-us/ >> >> The goal is to establish a professional group, under the auspices of >>ACM, >> Association of Computing Machinery, of Austin area software engineers, >> computer scientists, statisticians, and researchers who have an >>interest in >> machine learning, particularly big data machine learning. Big data >>machine >> learning algorithms are the cornerstone of many startup companies and >>at the >> leading edge of computational mathematics. One objective is to start a >> weekly hackers dojo to learn big data machine learning algorithms using >> Hadoop and Mahout to improve the skill set of the Austin software >>community. >> To form an ACM chapter we will need 10 people who are, or willing to >>become, >> both members of ACM and SIGKDD. We will need to elect a Chair, Vice >>Chair, >> and Secretary/Treasurer. ACM will provide us with an IRS EIN as a >>non-profit >> organization. This will allow a tax write-off for organizations that >>make >> donations to the group. >> Agenda >> 1. Vision >> 2. Organization >> 3. Virtual Dojo >> a. Technical Infrastructure >> 4. Votes >> a. ACM SIGKDD Officer Elections >> b. Meeting Day - many people are against Tuesday or Thursday >> c. Permanent Location >> 5. Topics / projects to study for the first couple of months >> Sincerely, >> David G. Boney >> [email protected] >
