Organizational
Qualities of Noisebridge that might affect our organizational status decision
- membership based; members not need to be 'owners' or 'managers'
- not planning to turn a profit
- limited liability for members/managers
- one organizer has an S corp that would otherwise be shut down that could be transformed into Noisebridge thing
Questions for a lawyer specializing in setting up corporations
- what should ours be?
- how annoying/expensive will it be to transition from one type to a different type?
- how about two organizations, one to do (subset of things) and the other to do (subset of things)
- please add questions
Mitch is setting up a meeting with his corporate lawyer, if you think of any good questions, please add them above! The six of us who spent Saturday afternoon discussing organizational strategies will all be attending this meeting. We are getting a discount from this lawyer so we want to limit the number of people coming to the meeting. If you really want to come, let's discuss it; several of us would be happy to swap out our places with you but we think 6 is enough people. The timing of the meeting is up to the lawyer's schedule so we don't have that yet, Mitch will let us know when more happens on that.
Questions for a lawyer specializing in criminal defense:
- if Noisebridge members do illegal things at our space, are other members required to do anything about it?
- if Noisebridge owns equipment that can be used for Nefarious Purposes as well as legitimate ones, are we responsible for policing it?
- what is the minimum necessary stuff we need to do to cover our asses? (i.e. a sign saying, don't use this space to do illegal shit)
Jake knows someone whose name I forget but there was no initiative to contact them (yet).