[sudo-discuss] Articles of Incorporation

[Yardena Cohen]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Eddan Katz <eddan at clear.net> wrote:
> Perhaps it was purposely
> distributed just before the meeting and not before then so that those who
> did not send the email would have had less of a chance to review it?

Eddan, did you read Marc's link?
http://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2013-October/003910.html

I sent that email 12 days ago!

Frankly, I'm tired of waiting on incorporation any more. I am thankful
to Marc for helping us move forward. I respect the desire to find more
radical horizontal legal hacks but the truth is, even being a regular
corp would not make us any worse-off than we are NOW, where we have a
DBA, bank account, lease and trifling assets in the legal names of a
handful of people with no accountability other than the goodness of
their hearts. IMO, we'd actually be closer to horizontal than now, as
bizarre as that sounds. We'd also be generally more likely to exist at
all, given that incorporation is the bottleneck for a wide variety of
solutions to problems that damage our community with every week of not
being solved.

Which brings me to my other point: no amount of legalese in the world
will make up for souring human relationships. With respect to the
horror stories of orgs being slyly pwnd by white-collar embezzlement
because of loopholes in their bylaws, it is vastly more likely that
sudoroom would get pwnd by more informal, intangible problems like our
board having poor skills at empathy, communication and listening. I am
not indulging any fantasies about us turning Founding Father and
overcoming our differences via parliamentary intrigue. If we can't
work together on a simple document over several weeks, then this is
pointless.