Plano .Net Users Group (Advice Needed)
That's right,
PDNUG's first meeting will be this Wednesday, April 14th. Who will be kicking it off? None other than Microsoft's very own
Rob Howard! A couple of months back I was honored to be asked by
Jason Alexander and
Shane Henderson to be the Secretary & Treasurer for the group. Of course I said yes immediately; what better way to give back to the community I love. With this responsibility comes many challenges and the first has presented itself, so I thought I would ask for some feedback from other
.Net Users Groups.
PDNUG is trying to establish itself much like a business. We want to make it as loosely coupled as possible so that if need be, officers can come and go as the group matures. Because of this vision we need to establish an account, po box, etc... We were wondering how other
groups have done this in the past. I spoke to one groups president and they operate all accounting out of the presidents personal bank account. We don't want to take this route, so I went to the bank this morning and spoke with an account manager. The account manager told me that we will need to register with the county courts and establish
PDNUG as a non-profit organization. Once this has been done we then take the paper work to the bank and they will open up an account under the
PDNUG name. Have any of the other
.Net Users Groups taken this approach? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help and I hope to see lots of you at future
PDNUG meetings.
~Jim