Legal issues | Forum
|
|
![forum forum](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/forum.png) |
Becoming a 501(c)(3) non-profit, aquiring property, insurance, etc.
|
|
Topics |
Started |
Last Post |
Posts |
Views |
---|
![Positive Rating rateup](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/ratings/rateup.png) 0 | |
March 24, 2010 3:48 am by Luke Maurits
![One of CSTART's current high priorities is to take steps twoard becoming a legal entity of some kind, like a non-profit organisation. This would let us open a bank account in the name of CSTART, have property be owned by CSTART, have people enter into contracts with CSTART, etc. All of these are... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
November 28, 2010 2:34 pm by Sci
![The ITAR thing certainly creates a devide between the potential US contributers to the project and those in the rest of the world. But I suspect there will be similar legal constraints for a lot of other countries, if not all of them.
Has anyone done an assesment of the laws in all the countries of... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
18 |
3878 |
![Positive Rating rateup](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/ratings/rateup.png) +3 | |
November 19, 2009 1:05 pm by johnnyping
![Put succinctly there is a lot of work that goes into starting a nonprofit.
Some of the first steps that have to be taken:
A mission statement - just one or two sentences relating to what this organization is all about
Board Members - we need to pick people who will meet regularly to run and make... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
November 12, 2010 4:55 pm by Rocket-To-The-Moon
![Just another friendly reminder that I'm holding about $290 of CSTART money that has been earmarked for this purpose. gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
112 |
3417 |
![Positive Rating rateup](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/ratings/rateup.png) +1 | |
November 20, 2009 11:43 am by Rocket-To-The-Moon
![Here is a link to a fill in the blank form. You should all have access to edit it.
<a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?doc.....&hl=en" rel="nofollow">http://docs.google.com/Doc?doc.....&hl=en</a> gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
December 15, 2009 5:06 am by Luke Maurits
![Rizwan said:
I agree with this. Apart from that we shouldn't somehow give too much power in the hands of the board, right now its the only problem with this. Because in the end it is the board who is still deciding on yes or no.
Lets not forget that power and money corrupts people.
We should... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
22 |
939 |
![Positive Rating rateup](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/ratings/rateup.png) 0 | |
December 7, 2009 2:43 am by Luke Maurits
![I am assuming that our primary motivation for trying to become a proper 501(c)(3) incorporated non-profit is to facilitate easier and more trustworthy fundraising. This is an important goal, but I am starting to wonder if it actually requires all the effort we have been considering so far.
Consider... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
December 7, 2009 5:52 am by Rizwan
![I agree with brmj, we should incorporate first and then get a bank account. Who knows what legal problems might come up if we try to sidestep. gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
5 |
2197 |
![Positive Rating rateup](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/ratings/rateup.png) 0 | |
December 2, 2009 11:25 pm by Luke Maurits
![This is a thread for hashing out details of what we may want to put in the contracts for our manufacturing contracts.
I'll start off with what feel like some fairly obvious basics:
Money provided by CSTART may be used for the purchase of raw materials, construction equipment and other costs... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
December 3, 2009 7:25 pm by noumena
![Small loophole you might want to close. You mentioned that all of the things made are property of CSTART but you might want to specifically cover raw materials and equipment as being CSTART's as well. Something along the lines of:
All equipment and any excess raw material purchased with CSTART... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
2 |
441 |
![Positive Rating rateup](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/ratings/rateup.png) 0 | |
November 15, 2009 3:48 am by Kie
![Alrighty, for the project, should we be needing a Creative Commons licence? It is quite easy to make up though we would all have to agree on one.
This means that if we choose a Creative Commons licence others can use our work and build off it as long as it meets our chosen restrictions.
Or
We could... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
November 15, 2009 6:43 am by Luke Maurits
![There seems to be strong support for using a permissive license on copyrightable output - check out our draft social contract and the discussion of it at Reddit. CC seems like the obvious way to go for this, we'd just have to decide on which flavour (non-commercial vs commercial, attribution vs... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
2 |
443 |
|
|
Most Users Ever Online:
59
Currently Online:
7 Guests
Currently Browsing this Forum:
2 Guests
|
Forum Stats:
Groups: 4
Forums: 36
Topics: 514
Posts: 3815
|
Membership:
There are 1139 Members
There are 2 Admins
|
Top Posters:
Rocket-To-The-Moon – 685 brmj – 402 rpulkrabek – 349 DenisG – 69 antinode – 64 J. Simmons – 46
|
Recent New Members: peterpaul008, Sandra, melody, devinbutler30, Manoj Kumar, Andrew |