The Joindin Foundation Officially 501c3

We’ve been waiting a while, but it’s finally official! The Joindin Foundation as officially been approved by the IRS as a 501c3 Noprofit Organization!

This means we can accept tax deductiable donations and also qualify for several nonprofit programs such as TechSoup!

The Joindin Foundation along with the Leadership Team would like to give special thanks and appreciation to Matteo Beccati and everyone in the Italian PHP community of GrUSP for the generous donation of 1,000 Euro to help fund our nonprofit incorporation costs! We wouldn’t have been able to do this without their support.

June Update from the Leadership Team

Nonprofit News

The big news item is still a waiting game. We’ve filed our paperwork to become a 501(c)(3) in the United States. Usually, this process takes a month or two however it’s taking an extra long time to get our application processed. Joe contacted the Internal Revenue Service to inquire about the status of our application and was informed the application has been assigned to an agent for review on May 29th. This means we should be hearing back within the next 30-45 days.

Hosted Service News

The hosted service suffered some rough performance issues in late May which unfortunately affected a few events. The Leadership Team dug into the issues and worked with our hosting provider Platform.sh to get the issues resolved. We have also moved to a newer region of their service so that we’ll have fewer issues. So far we have seen much improvement in the hosted service performance.

Open Source Project News

The Leadership Team has scheduled an internal Product Discussion meeting focused on defining what direction the hosted service needs to push towards to serve our users as best we can. The outcome of this meeting should provide the next 4-6 months of priority work around revamping the hosted service to better facilitate our users.

This past week was the 2019 Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam which featured a hackathon event where Joind.in was represented by Andreas Heigl & Jos Elstgeest from the Leadership Team. We had several contributors share pull requests and we’re excited to see new community contributors!

The Joindin Foundation

Today the Joind.in Leadership Team is excited to announce the formation of The Joindin Foundation. The Joindin Foundation is a nonprofit organization that has applied for recognition of exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of The United States of America. We have the support of some really amazing people and I would like to introduce you to the founding board members: Adam Englander (Leadership Team), Beth Tucker Long (Longtime Joind.in Administrator), and myself Joe Ferguson. The three of us will oversee the nonprofit organization which will operate the Joind.in hosted service and oversee the open source project.

We would also like to announce that with the official organization comes an official address: PO Box 342457 Memphis, TN 38184. We would love for you to send us snail mail postcards and even stickers of your event!

You can also learn about what our leadership team has been working on by listening to the brand new episode of the Voices Of the Elephpant Podcast