[Inpycon] Registering society (Was: Re: FOSS PyCon)

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 12:13:09 pm Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/10/14 Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com>
>
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM, kausikram krishnasayee
> > <kausikram at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [..]
> >
> > > I think we should look a little deeper than just that. agreed we need
> > > to register primarily to hold a bank account. but then there are a
> > > whole lot
> >
> > of
> >
> > > nitty gritty details that have to be ironed out. Better to do it right
> >
> > now,
> >
> > > than think about ways to fix bylaws later on.
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > You had some experience with this didn't you?
> >
> > Can you mention some of the nitties (and while you're at it, some of
> > the gritties as well)? I'd like to be prepared before visiting the
> > lawyer.
>
> I have the soft copy of the Trust-Deed that we used to register
> BangaloreCares trust. It was prepared by a well known law firm. Will be
> hapy to mail it to Noufal or anyone else as required.
> We choose trust over society as the legal requirements for society are
> bigger overhead over trust.

trusts are scary - very prone to abuse - only to be set up when you have a dfl 
who wields absolute power.
-- 
regards
kg
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