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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    • Open Foundation Canada
    • Open Social Foundation Canada
    • Canadian Open Foundation
    • Open Things Canada
    • Good Things Collective
    • Good Foundation Canada
    • Decent Foundation Canada
    • Decent Canada
    • Decent Social Canada
    • Decent Foundation Canada
    • Decent Co-op?

    Or add some of the keywords to a random generator and pull a few options and make a survey.

    You can add Co-op to any of them if you decide to form a co-op. Which I think you should, but that probably doesn’t need to happen right this second, unlike the accounting and server cost reimbursement. Democratic workers co-op being the antidote to the centralized decision-making plaguing the companies whose services we’re running away from.

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      Vouching for open social foundation of Canada or Canadian open social foundation

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      If Decent wasn’t available I’d even settle for ‘Not Terrible Things Canada’.