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Non-Profit Registration: Name suggestions. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's been on the back-burner for a bit but it's time that I get on it and register our operation as a on-profit organization. We will be registering under the BC Societies Act. Completing this registration will allow for opening up a bank account under the organization's name and reopen donations and have the previously donated funds transferred from @[email protected] to the organization.

To this date since taking over operations of Lemmy.ca I have personally covered the costs and have not been reimbursed to keep accounting as clean as possible. This will continue until registration has been completed.

First step to this is picking a name to register the Society under. Requirements for the name can be found here.

While the initial main purpose of the society/organization will be operating Lemmy.ca we would prefer a name that would be fit for operations of other open communication platforms as well as other potential projects that we may want to participate in in the future. Something somewhat open ended.

Please give us some suggestions and we will take the suggestions under advisement when picking a name.

Further information on non-profit registration in BC can be found here.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would be interested in knowing what kind of future projects we're thinking about? Do we want it focused on Federated projects? Or more open communication standards beyond the fediverse?

Something like Canadian Open-Source Communication Advocates (or Association) is very generic sounding

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Would be interested in knowing what kind of future projects we’re thinking about?

Other than a potential matrix server, I do not currently have anything in mind. The future is unpredictable.

An example of a non-profit effort that I took on in the past is COVID PPE 3D printing with volunteer community printers. If something like that was needed for pandemic or disaster relief again would be nice to not have to go through the trouble of spinning up a new non-profit.

I think we can definitely work with Canadian Open Source Communication Association. Maybe swap out Communication for Community.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Canadian Open Source Community Association

I like it!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia: "A cosca (Italian: [ˈkɔska]; pl. cosche in Italian and coschi in Sicilian), in Sicily, is a clan or Sicilian Mafia crime family led by a capo."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FWIW I’m not sure I’d be excited that my donations to Lemmy.ca would be spent on disaster relief. Some related projects make sense (other federated communities, online Canadian content ,etc) , but I stopped donating to Wikipedia after getting tired of their tangential charity shit.

To that end, some ideas

Chat Across Canada (CAC? Could do something with sea to sea, as well, although c2c is a band)
Canadian Federated Communities, although CFC is bad
Canada online
Some backronym for CANUCK
Federated Canuckistan (okay this one is particularly dumb)

I’m not sure if the name will make a huge deal if you can do “business” under another name. If the society name is “Lemmy.ca and associated project deployments for Canadians by Canadians” can you “do business” (receive donations to, brand websites as) Lemmy.ca? There’s nothing really unclear about “the Lemmy.ca matrix server” or “an instance of mastodon run by Lemmy.ca”.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Canada online

This one sounds like a parody of America Online (which was later renamed and is now known as AOL).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

COL, it's high.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Chat Across Canada - sounds catchy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We could use the matrix commucations protocol to stage union protests ;)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

There's been some interest in things like a matrix server, so it'd be good to leave us options for more.