Jake,

I sent a note to the discuss list a week or so ago with links and amounts needed, to hopefully make this easy. The bottom line: get it started ASAP because it takes a month or so to complete.

And Patrik, yes CCL will need to do this too. In fact every group at Omni that takes money (members, rent, selling stuff) will need to do it.

judi

-------- My prior note --------

A business license is something you apply for at the City of Oakland. Straightforward process, requires filing a form and paying a $60 fee, then running a notice in a local (authorized) printed newspaper for some number of days, then the City sends you a paper saying you're licensed to do business. You should have one already (within 30 days of starting your business).

http://oaklandbusinesscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=59
or PDF online: http://www.oaklandnet.com/government/fwawebsite/revenue/revenue_newbiaapp.htm

If you file the papers with the City then wait a couple of days before doing the posting in, say, the Oakland Tribune (for something like $70?), some other outfit will send a postcard advertising the same service for closer to $35 or $40. I used them last time I filed and it worked just fine.

Note that this will also tick the box that tells the City to send business tax notices too.

On 9/3/15 2:14 PM, Jake wrote:

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Marc Juul wrote:

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:
      there is a risk that the current owner of our domain could "drop" it, which would send it immediately to auction where we might lose it to squatters, unless we
      pay huge money to get it back.

      for this reason i suggest that we go the route of getting the host to hand it over to us because we are a "business" and we own the name. Lots of people have
      said they know how to do this, has anyone started the process?

      in the meantime, i think that people should NOT contact this person on twitter without prior discussion and agreement at a meeting.

      I think we should ask godaddy to hand it over now, and see what they say in response. Maybe they'll say "we require a business license from the city" or maybe
      they'll say "here you go"

      have we even tried yet?

Yes I spent quite a while on the phone with them and they do require a business license.

good answer. Let's get a business license right away!

who knows how to get a business license for sudoroom?

who wants to go and actually get the business license?

who wants to pay for the business license (we need money)?

-jake
_______________________________________________
sudo-discuss mailing list
sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org
https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss