[fsfc-discuss] Incorporation, charitable status registration

[Christopher Hart]

Hi from Montreal,

I would like to help with incorporating FSFC as a non-profit and registering it for charitable status.

After reading the archives I see there has been some talk about this years ago. I also see there was some back and forth about the constitution and mission.

About whether there should be an organization at all: it's not obvious to me which charitable groups in Canada do anything like what the FSF does in the US. I saw a post on the list suggesting to go through Creative Commons Canada, but that may not be ideal [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F].

As for specific initiatives, I think the first baby step is to get incorporated and registered to accept charitable donations. Do you think the incorporation documents and charitable status registration will require lots of details on the mission? I have only done this kind of thing for regular corporations which only need vague or high level constitutions.

Either way, these seem to be administrative details. If anyone knows of significant roadblocks please let us know about them.

Can we organize a meeting for introductions of active members and to figure out where to go next?

Thanks! Eagerly,

Chris