[Auugps] Incorporation

[Lawrie Brown]

Hi Stephen & All

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 02:47:04PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> At Lawrie's prompting, Steve Jenkin did a little investigating to see
> what is involved in becoming an Incorporated Association in the ACT.  It
> doesn't look to bad, actually (the hard bit is probably making up a
> sensible set of rules).  We need to do this at least in order to have the
> license for auug.org.au transferred to us.
> 
> The down side of incorporation is the annual reporting.  However, since
> our income is likely to be below $5000/year (and, in fact, should be 0),
> that will cost us nothing and the financial report will be trivial and
> can be audited by anyone (not a committee member etc).

Okay - I must admit the thought was to keep this "new" society
unincorporated. If you want an incorporated society, and are willing
to manage the annual reporting - then why don't we just keep AUUG Inc.
going - as it already is. The major problem with AUUG is that
currently no one is willing to do the work of keeping the basic
requirements of incorporation going. If some people are willing,
even if it means changing the aims of AUUG somewhat, lets just do
it with the existing structure.

I'd very very surprised is the Victorian Incorporation requirements
are all that much different to those in the ACT.

Comments?

Cheers
Lawrie