[CQ] [hackerdojo] Would anybody like 100 jail radios?

[Josh Myer]

Err, the whole hack shelf is very problematic, then.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:57:41PM -0800, Josh Myer wrote:
>> There's a good chance that I'm going to have roughly all of these
>> coming to NB, I just have to get them there.  I can pick them up on
>> Thursday afternoon, but probably not before.
>>
>> They'll come in as a donation, and go onto the hack shelf, free for
>> people to use as they will, which is exactly Katy's goal.  Awesome.
>
> Note that if they're a donation, they become property of Noisebridge.
> IE it's not cool for them to disappear into people's homes never to be
> seen again.  That would be theft.
>
> Noisebridge can potentially sell donated materials for fundraising
> purposes, or give them out to needy people in the form of a formal
> giving program with recordkeeping and so on, but either of those
> possibilities comes with bookkeeping requirements and (entirely
> reasonable) restrictions on who receives the benefits and the goods.
>
> IANAL, IAN your accountant, this is not legal or tax advice, yadda
> yadda.
>
> -andy
>



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