RE: [atlarge-discuss] Some Simple Facts...

["Bruce Young" <bruce@barelyadequate.info>]

I don't disagree with most of this.  However, the appropriate order is to
create our organization first, then solicit funds.  Without a legally
approved organization, in whatever venue we wish to have it approved, we can
run into tax issues (at least in *this* country!).

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon USA
bruce@barelyadequate.info
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|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Walter Schmidt [mailto:walts@dorsai.org]
|  Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:47 AM
|  To: Atlarge Discuss List; The AtLarge Panel Eleven -- Bruce (PM) Young;
|  Edmundo (PM) Valenti; Hans (PCh) Klein; James (PM) Love; J-F C. (Jefsey)
|  (PM) Morfin; Michael (PM) Geist; Richard (PM) Henderson; Satyajit (PM)
|  Gupta; Vittorio (PM) Bertola; Vivek (PM) Durai; YJ (PM) Park
|  Cc: Walter Schmidt
|  Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Some Simple Facts...
|
|
|
|  Some Simple Facts...as I see them
|
|  Folks -
|
|  I continue to be amazed by the ways we find to NOT get anything
|  done. This
|  seems to include NOT acknowledging the fact that there needs be both
|  formal/official/external and informal/unofficial/internal "sides" to all
|  questions/positions/points. That said; consider the following nine points
|  as being said in a close-door brainstorming session being
|  attended by both
|  Line and Staff...
|
|   1. Who Are We: anyone from anywhere who cares to join, in anyway they
|  care to join in.
|
|   2. What Are We About: trying to ensure the all internet users can have
|  their voice heard, if and when they want it to be heard.
|
|   3. How Do We Go About This: by providing an (umbrella)
|  organization whose
|  voice IS listened to by the rest of the internet community, and who, in
|  turn, listens to all those who would care to speak with us.
|
|   4. Our Mission Statement: See "What Are We About." How we word-smith our
|  Mission Statement is only a detail.
|
|   5. Our By-Laws: or constitution - is an organizational requirement, but
|  it's a cart not the HORSE. Need an international example - UNESCO at
|  http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/legal/index.shtml - and starting with
|  http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001255/125590e.pdf
|
|   6. Our Organization: another detail - but one which must properly deal
|  with all international transactions, their accounting, reporting, and tax
|  consequences, for all "sides" of any transaction.
|
|   7. ICANN: isn't going away anytime soon - we need to deal with it, not
|  ignore it - or just call it names.
|
|   8. What We Don't Have: is a funding source that would allow us
|  to buy the
|  STAFF support we MUST have - legal and accounting at a minimum.
|
|   9. What We Aren't: we aren't all LINE personnel...and we
|  certainly aren't
|  as talented as we think we are.
|
|
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