[Board] IRS response to OSGeo's 501c3 and discussion of our options

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks Daniel,
To facilitate this discussion, I suggest that we identify OSGeo's 
current activities, (in particular funded activities), and classify them 
as IN or OUT of the proposed non-profit status.

Eg:
* Global FOSS4G, IN, Criteria: Xxxx

* Regional FOSS4G
* Sponsoring Code Sprints
* Sponsoring marketing material for a OSGeo Booth at spatial conferences
* Website maintenance
* Paying a developer/reviewer to work on OSGeo-Live production?
* Paying for the printing of OSGeo-Live for distribution at workshops? 
... at universities? ... handing out at conferences?

Is there a wiki already set up where we should put such a list?

On 13/08/2013 12:42 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Hi Board,
>
> As I wrote a few days ago, we had a conference call a few weeks ago 
> between myself, the IRS agent responsible for our 501c3 application, 
> and our attorney David Atkin. In the call we discussed the IRS 
> position and our possible options, and I asked David to summarize that 
> in a letter/report to share with the rest of the board.
>
> I just got this letter/report form David tonight and attached a copy. 
> There are a few points that were discussed in the call that are not 
> clear in the document, so I just emailed David to ask for 
> clarifications that I will share, but I thought I would share this 
> first version with you all right away.
>
> We have until August 31 to respond to the IRS indicating which way we 
> want to go, so we need to discuss this now and make a decision on 
> those tough questions soon. I realize that timing is not ideal with 
> the election but we need to act on this ASAP.
>
> Even if that's not obvious by reading the letter, there is a possible 
> path forward that the IRS would agree to and with minimal tax 
> implications relative to the accumulated surplus that serves as a 
> cushion/seed money for FOSS4G, but that would imply running two 
> organizations in parallel as described in the letter.  More on that 
> later once I get the response from David to my questions sent a few 
> minutes ago.
>
> Finally, David offered to participate in our next board meeting to 
> answer any questions we may have. We may also want to hold a separate 
> special meeting on this topic alone, perhaps over phone or skype as 
> this is what David would be most used to.
>
> Daniel
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