503(c) and bank account status?

[Lee Fisher]

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At LFNW, Robinson of LibreOffice followed-up with Andrew and myself
re: FGSea's nonprofit status. [I am guessing there was an
Andrew/Robinson conversation on Saturday.] And to remind us about
keeping focused on FSF's principles. :-)

The question of FGSea's 503(c) status also came up at last meeting.
Does anyone know current status? And of status of bank account? This'd
be useful to know current status, esp for upcoming Sunday board mtg.

Robinson:

Thanks for the FGSea complements below. As for what you can do to
help, we are trying to plan more FOSS-centric end-user software
training, starting in Fall. If you can find some LO trainer in the
area that would be able to give some free (beer) training, hopefully
2-20 hours, once a quarter, that'd be awesome. General office skills
with LO, Writer, Impress. Maybe we can try to do a 1-night one,
planned for the days adjacent to SeaGL/LFNW when you're in town?
As well, if you know of any new ways to help us get local hardware
donations and PC HW-savvy workshop leads, that'd be welcome! :-)

Thanks.

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Subject: FreeGeek Seattle -- Are you guys working on 503(c) status?
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:21:20 -0700
From: Robinson Tryon <bishop....@gmail.com>
To: Lee Fisher <uni...@riseup.net>, Andrew Kane
<ak...@freegeekseattle.org>

I chatted really briefly at LFNW, but I wanted to touch base again
with you and the rest of the FG Seattle folks re: making Free Software
a part of your guiding principles (especially if you're drafting
anything to use as the founding documents for a non-profit)

As I mentioned, when I went to talk with FG in Portland last year,
they didn't seem to have Free/Open Source Software as a key part of
their intrinsic code; I didn't get the impression from leadership that
they had any great desire to. No-cost software was convenient for
them, I don't think there was any advocacy, and they'd be just as
happy to do something else if it supported their actual incorporating
statements.

(
That being said, there are many pages out there that seem to
contradict what I heard, e.g.
http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Free_Geek_Principles
"Use Free/Open Source Software wherever possible and must promote the
Free Software philosophy in other ways, such as transparent
collaboration with others. "

Current bylaws and mission statement however do not mention Free or
Open Source Software:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lZa82oLLYuPpjqRh_VV-rHnMweGWZPaYZCv3jo9V1CI/edit#
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R1EmVGnfh6dG8iVV6yE_AcTRh7XFNkdjHHL6bu0NfgY/edit
)


Regardless of what's happening down here in PDX, the 'Purpose' listed
on the FG Seattle site right now [see below] sounds pretty darn good.
I'm looking forward to seeing y'all grow and become stronger in the
future -- if there's anything I or TDF/LibreOffice can do to help,
please let me know!

Best,
- --R


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Purpose

We are modeled after the original non-profit Free Geek of Portland,
Oregon.

Our focus is free and open source software advocacy, technology
education, and sustainable computing.
To provide sustainable, affordable computing solutions utilizing free
software, refurbished, and low-cost devices. Primarily by empowering
people, secondarily promoting and developing free software.
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Robinson Tryon
QA Engineer - The Document Foundation
LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald
qu...@libreoffice.org
802-379-9482 | IRC: colonelqubit on Freenode



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[Mark Foster (Free Geek Seattle)]

On 05/01/2015 10:13 AM, Lee Fisher wrote:
> Does anyone know current status? And of status of bank account?

See https://freegeekseattle.org/wiki/501c3_Status
I just updated it.