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The Central Ohio Linux User Group

Ohio's Oldest Linux User Group
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Last updated: 6 March 2005

Finances

Funds
Donation at 3/29/00 meeting   93.00 
Fan for stones (20.00)
Donation at 4/21/00 lunch   1.00 
30 G Hard Drive 4/27/00   (148.00)
Extension cord 4/29/00   (14.00)
Donation at 4/29/00 meeting   15.00 
Donation at 5/16/00 COLUG-LUNCH   10.00 
Donation at 5/31/00 meeting   50.00 
Donation at 6/24/00 meeting   43.00 
Donation at 7/30/03 meeting   10.00 
Balance as of 7/30/03    40.00 

Hardware and Software Donations

The CentOS Operating System (in service Feb 2005)
  -- the CentOS project -- volunteer contributors
The cAos Operating System (in service May 2004, upgraded Feb 2005)
  -- the cAos project -- volunteer contributors
Successor hard drive [Samsung IDE 160G] (in service May 2004)
  -- Owl River Company -- Russ Herrold, and Phil Hunter
The Compaq EN chassis (in service May 2004)
  -- Owl River Company -- Russ Herrold, and Phil Hunter
The hard disk upgrade [Maxtor 30G] (in service April 2000, retired May 2004)
  -- COLUG -- The members of COLUG
The NTX chassis (in service July 1999, retired May 2004)
  -- LanShark Systems -- Scott Sharkey
UPS for outage coverage (in service June 2000)
  -- Donor (who wished not to be noted on this site) recognized at June 2000 meeting
Initial hard drive [Western Digital IDE 520M] (in service 1996, retired July 1999)
  -- Owl River Company -- Russ Herrold, and Phil Hunter
The i-Bus rackmount chassis (in service 1996)
  -- Owl River Company -- Russ Herrold, and Phil Hunter
 

Hardware Needs

Three sticks of 256 M DIMM (168 pin)
 

To Do

Sitewide code audit
  -- in process
Repair 'Contact' page
  -- in consideration

Sponsorships

   The group will feature one month 'Front webpage' sponsorships for organizations or companies donating goods or services. This includes being featured on the main homepage of the group, and then permanent, minimum one year recognition below. A 'customized' clickthru link will be used if desired.

July 2003   Obio Civil Service Employees Association - Labor union -- Meeting space
June 2003   Liebert Corporation - Computer power and environmental conditioning -- Meeting space
December 2000   Collective Technologies - Systems administration -- Meeting space
November 2000   Collective Technologies - Systems administration - Meeting space
October 2000   TeamAmerica - Employee leasing services - Meeting space
September 2000   TeamAmerica - Employee leasing services - Meeting space
August 2000   SAIR Linux and GNU Certification - Training and Certification materials
July 2000 Coliolis - Linux Kernel Commentary
June 2000 IDG books - Linux for Dummies (various)
May 2000 TurboLinux - Server and Workstation CD's
April 2000   TeamAmerica - Employee leasing services - Meeting space
March 2000 Linu><Care - lots of goodies
February 2000 SuSE - SuSE 6.3 CD's
January 2000 techies.com - Training material, Food

Tax exempt status

    COLUG is an un-incorporated association, organized exclusively for a charitable educational purpose, as described in Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) [viz., education as to Open Source software]. No substantial assets are held by it, no private interest benefits from its operation, and it engages in no political, or non-exceptioned legislative advocacy. If it were to dissolve, what few assets exist -- primarily its intellectual property in terms of its copyrighted content are largely already 'GPL'd and so available under that license for free reuse by others already.

As such, contributions to it appear to be eligible to receive tax-deductible treatment in accordance with IRC Section 170. As noted, the organization holds no substantial assets, nor seeks them, such that the approximate $1000 expense of attaining formal recognition of exempt status far exceeds its annual revenues. As a matter of good stewardship, absent external funding to cover this cost, it is un-economic to pursue this un-needed formality. If a proposed contributor wishes to discuss funding this obtainment of recognition by the organization to gain 'safe harbour' treatment of a contribution, please contact the administrator. See also: IRC non-profit exempt status discussion.

Shipping

   Promotional, Review or Sponsorship material intended for distribution by the group should be shipped, ground freight prepaid absent prior arrangement, to:

Postal Service:
 TO:  
Central OH Linux UG
Care of Owl River Company
Attn: Phil Hunter 
Post Office Box 12069
Columbus  OH  43212-0069
 

... These address labels are suitable for print and pasting on consignments with UPS, the USPS, and FedEx ... .

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