[gentoo-nfp] Section 1.1 Business Offices

[gentoo-nfp] Section 1.1 Business Offices

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

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While this section has provisions for business offices. Till there is
the need, or more importantly the funds/revenue to be able to afford for
such. I think it's quite moot and pointless to even be mentioned.

Therefore I think we should say that Gentoo has no official offices,
other than temporary locations used to conduct business affairs.
Meetings, legal paperwork, etc. Which even that is a stretch.

Right now kinda leaves the door open. We could have an office in CA
today,  NM tomorrow, maybe in India next week, etc. Obviously that's way
over exaggerated. But would shouldn't give off the impression we have
offices, or might have offices, in varying locations, from time to time.

Door seems to open, does it matter?

If there comes a need for offices, revise the by laws. IMHO

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
amd64/Java/Trustees
Gentoo Foundation


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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Section 1.1 Business Offices

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

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On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:12 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, William L. Thomson Jr.  wrote:
> > While this section has provisions for business offices. Till there is
> >  the need, or more importantly the funds/revenue to be able to afford for
> >  such. I think it's quite moot and pointless to even be mentioned.
> 
> I thought this whole point was a legal requirement from NM and that
> our office was set to the location of our agent in NM. Aren't we
> required to have an office in NM?

As I read the requirements from here
http://www.nmprc.state.nm.us/corporations/pdf/charter/dnp.pdf

Article Four: A New Mexico corporation must continually maintain a
registered agent and registered office address.
....
(2) Enter the name of the registered agent, who must be located at the
registered office address.


We don't need offices per say, as a registered office address. Which the
registered agents address must be the same. Any registered agent we
retain, will therefore be the registered office location for the Gentoo
Foundation.

The By Laws could be implying that, but do not clearly state that. So we
should likely update them. To reflect that the Gentoo Foundation does
not have official offices, just a registered address to meet legal
requirements. No implication of Gentoo officials meeting at the offices
or conducting any business at that location or others.

Also maybe that the address might change as we change registered agents.
But any legal filings will have to be updated to reflect that. So not
sure the by laws need to spell out that aspect.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
amd64/Java/Trustees
Gentoo Foundation


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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Section 1.1 Business Offices

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:03:44 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:12 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
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> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, William L. Thomson Jr.  wrote:
> > > While this section has provisions for business offices. Till there is
> > >  the need, or more importantly the funds/revenue to be able to afford for
> > >  such. I think it's quite moot and pointless to even be mentioned.
> > 
> > I thought this whole point was a legal requirement from NM and that
> > our office was set to the location of our agent in NM. Aren't we
> > required to have an office in NM?
> 
> As I read the requirements from here
> http://www.nmprc.state.nm.us/corporations/pdf/charter/dnp.pdf
> 
> Article Four: A New Mexico corporation must continually maintain a
> registered agent and registered office address.
> ....
> (2) Enter the name of the registered agent, who must be located at the
> registered office address.
> 
> 
> We don't need offices per say, as a registered office address. Which the
> registered agents address must be the same. Any registered agent we
> retain, will therefore be the registered office location for the Gentoo
> Foundation.
> 
> The By Laws could be implying that, but do not clearly state that. So we
> should likely update them. To reflect that the Gentoo Foundation does
> not have official offices, just a registered address to meet legal
> requirements. No implication of Gentoo officials meeting at the offices
> or conducting any business at that location or others.
> 
> Also maybe that the address might change as we change registered agents.
> But any legal filings will have to be updated to reflect that. So not
> sure the by laws need to spell out that aspect.
> 

Probably not.

> -- 
> William L. Thomson Jr.
> amd64/Java/Trustees
> Gentoo Foundation
> 


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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)
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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Section 1.1 Business Offices

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

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On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:50 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
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> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:03:44 -0400
> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Also maybe that the address might change as we change registered agents.
> > But any legal filings will have to be updated to reflect that. So not
> > sure the by laws need to spell out that aspect.
> > 
> 
> Probably not.

Actually it's already mentioned in section 2.1.

Section one just needs to be update to reflect the foundation doesn't
have offices other than registered office. Till a time comes offices are
needed and exist, and by laws can be updated to reflect that.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
amd64/Java/Trustees
Gentoo Foundation


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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Section 1.1 Business Offices

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

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Further comments welcome, but moving on to next section(s).

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
amd64/Java/Trustees
Gentoo Foundation


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