Re: Forming GNOME-UK (was Re: LUGRadio / GUADEC catchup)

[Alex Hudson <home alexhudson com>]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:21 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Paul Cooper wrote:
> > [...]
> > * Thomas: Investigate setting up Gnome-UK as a club / registered charity / NFP so we can get a bank account and other infrastructure ready.
> >   
> I'd be particularly interested if anyone can shed some light on how 
> debian-uk set up their account, and how they operate in this regard.

It's the same for any club/society in the UK. You basically operate as
an unincorporated association.

You need the paperwork, yeah, and some officers - usually, three. More
than two is good, though.

I wouldn't be thinking to go down the charity route. More paperwork and
legal stuff awaits, and there wouldn't necessarily be a huge amount of
benefit. I'm not even sure if charitable status would be available.

We've done this for AFFS; as I understand it, Debian-UK is basically the
same setup.

Cheers,

Alex.