On Aug 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Derek Balling <dr...@megacity.org> wrote:
> I think - as a member - a question that is obvious here comes to mind:
> 
> - How much does forming this sub-corporation cost?
> - How much does all the lawyering to figure out the formation/legalities cost?
> - How much overhead is involved in managing a completely separate second 
> entity, cost-wise?
> 
> as compared to
> 
> - How much revenue does LOPSA (the 501c3) actually see from the conferences.
> 
> I expect that collecting the answers to those questions so that an *informed* 
> discussion can take place is the whole point of the current board activity. 
> It's not like setting up such a subsidiary is something that can be done in a 
> handful of board meetings, unless you're a large enough corporation that you 
> can delegate the real work to a small army of lawyers and administrators.

Agreed. I guess my perception was it went further in the board meetings than I 
would have expected without it having been mentioned as a possibility in a 
LOPSAgram, etc.

Although those particular questions should require any significant work at all.

D


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