Charitable non-profit purposes of Language

Oct 6 02:31 UTC 1993

Grex is considering seeking 501(C)3 federal tax exemption, as a charitable
non-profit organization (see Item 34 in Coop). The Grex Articles of
Incorporation are written to facilitate this, but the further test is
whether the corporation is evidently engaged in charitable non-profit
activities to further its purposes. One useful definition of these is
programs that serve to fulfill a function that would otherwise have to
be conducted by federal or state agencies. The educational activities
of grex, if sufficiently active and noteworthy, would fit into this
condition. Likewise, so would "the exchange of scientific and technical
information about the various aspects of computer science, such as 
operating systems, computer networks, and computer programming", if the
public has access to these, and they are being conducted for the public
benefit (the quote is from the grex Articles, available in 
/u/rcurl/grex.articles. 

The full possible range of non-profit chartiable programs that grex could
provide the public has not yet been defined, but will have to be to
substantiate an application for 501(C)3 tax exemption. Everything that
grex does or could do will need to be examined. One place to start is
in the individual conferences. Therefore, I enter this item to encourage the
discussion of possible Language programs that could be conducted for the
public benefit.

response 4 of 6:

Oct 6 04:56 UTC 1993

Thank you Steve. Done. (This cryptic exchange is because I initially
linked this item to Environment, and then saw the mess I created. It
is now a separate item in Environment.) 

response 6 of 6:

Oct 6 12:42 UTC 1993

"This one" is OK, if folks would care to start addressing the question.
This could include: would it be worthwhile providing an online dictionary
that can be searched for keywords, etc, as a public library service? It
should be considered whether such services should have their own suite
of call-in lines, to keep reference services separate from membership
participation.