Space Destiny(tm) blog - Space for All

[17:41]  Buteo Ruttan: hi, wassup?
[17:48]  Hour Destiny: Hello. Playing Anarchy Online, actually. It’s a sci-fi MMOG.
[17:49]  Hour Destiny: Been working on a wiki and live chat on the website.
[17:51]  Buteo Ruttan: is there a new website?
[17:52]  Hour Destiny: http://www.spacedestiny.org
[17:52]  Hour Destiny: The wiki is /wiki and the live chat is /help
[17:57]  Buteo Ruttan: nice! not complaining, but wondering when it moved? don’t recall being told about the change directly. not a prob, just wondering…
[17:58]  Hour Destiny: It was the hosting that moved.
[17:59]  Hour Destiny: Anderson Urqhart, the head of the NASA CoLab Welcome Team and my Vice-President, runs a hosting and web design company, and is giving us free hosting.
[17:59]  Hour Destiny: There should have been a group notice about it.
[18:00]  Hour Destiny: And one of my brothers is donating the use of a Windows 2008 Server computer that he has.
[18:04]  Buteo Ruttan: request: please put meeting dates/times in the group notice message body, not just the attachment.  when i’m not in SL, my IM goes to email,  that way i don’t have to log into SL just to get the date.  great news on all of the donated support!
[18:04]  Hour Destiny: I try to have the date and time in the subject.
[18:05]  Hour Destiny: I wonder how I’m going to forecast a 3 year budget.
[18:05]  Buteo Ruttan: ok; can u also ask colab to do the same, if appropriate?
[18:05]  Hour Destiny: I’ll mention it to Be.
[18:05]  Buteo Ruttan: budget, stnd by
[18:06]  Buteo Ruttan: well, i would start by making draft goals for yrs 1, 2, 3
[18:07]  Buteo Ruttan: then, figure out what funds you need to make that happen
[18:09]  Hour Destiny: That, I think I could do, at least roughly. Income is a whole another ballpark.
[18:12]  Buteo Ruttan: income…. must talk latr.  start with: min required, good to have, forget frills; pick a start $ for inc the a conservative approach is to increase it by 10%/yr
[18:14]  Hour Destiny: There’s also wages.
[18:14]  Hour Destiny: I’ll just take it one piece at a time.
[18:15]  Buteo Ruttan: good plan. do u have funding for wages? we don’t yet
[18:17]  Hour Destiny: Nope.
[18:17]  Hour Destiny: My impression is that we won’t have much success till we are 501(c)(3).
[18:22]  Buteo Ruttan: yes, i agree, that’s when you can really raise $, but you could seek large donations now, they would be tax deductable pending yourr 501c3 approval
[18:23]  Hour Destiny: For us, yes. Would they be deductable for the donor?
[18:24]  Buteo Ruttan: yes, unless you fail to qualify for state and fed nonprofit status
[18:24]  Hour Destiny: We have state already.
[18:26]  Buteo Ruttan: q: would u be comfortable continuing this dialog on a blog somewhere, ours our yours? i’m happy to host the discussion on one of the Ophoenix blogs if ok with you. would be nice to have a log of these exchanges, to refer back to…
[18:27]  Hour Destiny: Sure. I figure it will help many future nonprofits get started.
[18:29]  Hour Destiny: As it pertains directly to Space Destiny now, wouldn’t it be better to have the dialog on Space Destiny’s blog?
[18:31]  Buteo Ruttan: sure, do i need an account there?
[18:31]  Hour Destiny: You can Register and I’ll promote you.
[18:33]  Buteo Ruttan: link to blog is on main web page?
[18:35]  Buteo Ruttan: never mind; i’m at the blog site:)
[18:36]  Hour Destiny:
[18:41]  Buteo Ruttan: just reg’d as dwarfplanet…
[18:43]  Hour Destiny: Promoted to Author.
[18:44]  Buteo Ruttan: tnx; gotta go eat dinner, tlk to u latr. u ok if i post this msg log to the blog?
[18:45]  Hour Destiny: Go ahead.

Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Wyoming do not require organizations soliciting funds to register.

Colorado, Florida, and Oklahoma do not accept the Unified Registration Statement (URS) and require you to use their form.

I was so busy getting things so that I did not get around to announcing that Space Destiny is now incorporated in Nevada as of June 12. https://esos.state.nv.us/SOSServices/AnonymousAccess/CorpSearch/CorpDetails.aspx?lx8nvq=P3jAhg%252bBIGUUaKdReJRc%252fw%253d%253d has the details.

Wednesday, I sent in the last paper needed for creating a non-profit corporation in Nevada. I was informed that it would be about a week.

Title: Space Destiny Meeting
Location: Second Life
Description: Planning meeting to prepare to become a nonprofit.
Start Time: 17-00-00 PDT
Date: 2008-05-06

Thanks to Be, who filed an application for Space Destiny to become Space Destiny(tm).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpIPm7onRb4

I (Hour Destiny) was watching someone do a challenge at this booth and they couldn’t beat it. I told the people hosting the challenge how to beat it, so they setup a different one and challenged me to beat it. A woman standing near approached me, introduced herself as working for TechTarget, and said that she was looking for a “victim” to film for their blog. I consented to be her “victim” and she filmed the challenge.

My prize was called a “Network Macgyver survival kit” and looked like a mini lunchbox and inside was a piece of Bazooka Joe bubble gum (for keeping fans from blowing papers away), some duct tape, a shoelace
(for cable management), a network cable, a rack mount screw, and a paper clip (for CDs jammed in a drive).

Interop is an IT conference every year in May in Las Vegas. I got to spend 3 days at this one. Stayed at the Excalibur and had a 42″ plasma TV in the room. I brought so much stuff back (including 34 pens of different kinds), I couldn’t believe it. I even won an iPod Shuffle. I also brought back some software, 2 decks of Microsoft playing cards, a remote control, a tape measure/calculator/notepad, a jogging radio/compass, a boomerang, a Rubix’s cube, retractable earbuds, flashing LED dice, a wall-crawler in the shape of a brain, a screwdriver with a level in it, a multi-purpose screwdriver with multiple bits in the handle, a couple yo-yo’s, have a dozen T-shirts (including one in the shape of a throwing star), a head-bobber, and lots more.

I also mentioned Second Life(tm) and Space Destiny(tm) to some of the exhibitors and found that a couple of them are in SL.