Re: pacer and lollapalooza

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

Hi -

Any luck on finding Aaron a c4 incorporator?

Best regards,

Carl

On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Rhett Millsaps II wrote:

> Hi Carl and Aaron,
>
> This sounds like a great project, and I'm hopeful that we'll have  
> some folks here who can do this pro bono.  The question is whether  
> we have a partner in one of our offices with experience with 501(c) 
> (4) incorporations.  I'm checking around, and will let you know as  
> soon as I can.  As you know, I just get involved when things get  
> messy, so I'm trying to draft some of our transactional folks to  
> take this on.
>
> I actually know Larry Lessig from my Stanford days, but it's been  
> fun to go toe to toe with his folks on the HP case!
>
> I hope to get back to you with good news soon, and will put you in  
> touch with the right folks here if and when I find them.
>
> Thanks,
> Rhett
>
>
> On 7/25/08, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote: Hi Rhett -
>
> I'm David Halperin's friend.  I used to be Podesta's Chief  
> Technology Officer at the Center, am now running a c(3) nonprofit  
> out of California that puts primary legal materials (e.g., court  
> cases) on the net called Public.Resource.Org.
>
> I'd like to introduce you to Aaron Swartz who has created  
> Watchdog.Net.  The advice they received from their first funder, the  
> Sunlight Foundation, was that they should be a c(4).  I believe this  
> is Aaron's first nonprofit, but he has accumulated a distinguished  
> record in a variety of Internet enterprises.  He wrote the "RSS"  
> standard which is what newsfeeds are based on.
>
> He was also a founder of Reddit, a popular social networking site  
> that was sold to Conde Naste.  And, perhaps most importantly, he's  
> been the technical smarts behind a lot of impressive operations for  
> Internet veterans such as Brewster Kahle and Lawrence Lessig (a name  
> you may remember from your recent Harry Potter suit. :)
>
> Watchdog has some funding, but because they are early stage they are  
> definitely not flush, so I know Aaron would appreciate any reduced  
> fees or perhaps even pro bono representation for the initial C(4)  
> application.  If it is helpful, I am happy to provide advice during  
> the process, but this is Aaron's gig and I'm not directly involved.
>
> I'll let you two arrange a phone call with each other and you can  
> decide if this is worth taking the next step.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Carl
>
> P.S. Aaron ... Rhett's URL, which you no doubt found already, is 
> http://web.omm.com/rhettmillsapsii/