Re: Governance for Code4Lib

From: Eric Hellman <eric_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:18:38 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG

Eric Hellman
President, Free Ebook Foundation
Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/
https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
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> On Jul 25, 2017, at 11:18 AM, Esmé Cowles <escowles_at_TICKLEFISH.ORG> wrote:
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> On Jul 25, 2017, at 10:58 AM, Eric Hellman <eric_at_HELLMAN.NET> wrote:
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>> To follow up on Andromeda's calling the question, we need to do some things in addition to the usual dieboldotron.
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>> 1. There's a point of fact that is still being disputed/discussed: whether formalization is required by potential fiscal sponsor. It's straightforward to answer this before any poll is conducted -  ask the potential fiscal sponsors to weigh in on the question.
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> Hasn't that been settled by Bohyun's message yesterday?

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>> On Jul 24, 2017, at 6:36 PM, Kim, Bohyun <bkim_at_HSHSL.UMARYLAND.EDU> wrote:
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>> Jonathan is right, Cary. I am on this year's LPC for the next year's C4L conference at DC, and we are already working with DLF as a fiscal sponsor. No legal entity status was required.
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> Or is there some question that the requirements may be different for a long-term fiscal sponsorship, as opposed to a one-time sponsorship?
> 
> -Esmé


There were multiple threads with conflicting assertions. Bethany's post answers definitively as to CLIR. From the discussion, I understand that LITA also requires 2 LITA members as point of contact. It may be that other organizations may have different requirements, but I think we have enough to proceed.




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