The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 21 07:26:04 PDT 2015


On 2015-10-20 19:08, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Thanks for the inquiry. We've had our first organizational meeting
> during which we decided to proceed with creating an EIN (Employer
> Identification Number), which we have since acquired: 47-5352856. Also
> we decided to proceed with creating a bank account. I'm currently
> investigating choosing an appropriate bank, preferably United Bank of Do
> Not Rip Me Off. Suggestions welcome. We'll also proceed with inquiring
> for an accountant to deal with foundation's yearly taxes.
>
> To address your question: there are currently three officers: Walter
> Bright (President), Ali Çehreli (Secretary), and myself (Vice President
> and Treasurer). A member is a supporter and possibly sponsor of the
> Foundation. We're considering several membership kinds (e.g. honorific,
> student, individual, corporate) and levels, some that entail a
> sponsorship, and some that involve no monetary involvement.
>
> An officer is an administrator of the Foundation. We have been advised
> independently by our attorney and by a different foundation creator that
> we should keep officers to a minimum, three being the sweet spot.

Please create a new thread with the above summary or something similar.

> More officers means more politics. So we're moving forward with three
> officers for the time being. Of course the foundation can have several
> employees that are not officers; we hope to get there soon.

So currently there are 100% officers, that means 100% politics. Meaning 
nothing will get done :)

Sorry, I couldn't help myself :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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