From tuhs at tuhs.org Wed Jun 3 16:57:40 2026 From: tuhs at tuhs.org (Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 16:57:40 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. Message-ID: Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. For over a quarter of a century, Warren Toomey has been running The Unix Heritage Society. What wasn't clear to everybody was that this was a one-man show, and that Warren paid all expenses out of his own pocket. In mid-April, Warren asked for donations to help run the site. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and the donation target (AUD 3,728, about USD 2,600) was reached within 24 hours. Thanks to all for your generosity. Now comes the hard part: who looks after this money? Behind the scenes, Warren has had a few helpers known as the "TUHS Team". We decided that the best way to protect your donations was to create an Association according to Australian law. The state of Victoria has the simplest rules, so we created The Unix Heritage Society Inc. in Victoria. TUHSI has purposes which are legally protected: to preserve and maintain historical UNIX artefacts, and to provide a forum for discussion of UNIX and its history. The cost to run the server will keep both the Unix Archive hosted (the artefacts) and the TUHS mailing list running (the forum). As a not-for-profit organisation, TUHSI must ensure that funds collected are spent only on the TUHSI purposes, and TUHSI must make public the details of how any funds are spent. The term “Inc.” has nothing to do with commercial companies. It's the form required by the Victorian government. The TUHS team will form the initial members of the association. Many will be well known to you. They are: Thalia Archibald David Arnold Kevin Bowling Clem Cole Dan Cross Matt G. (segaloco) Greg Lehey Warner Losh Larry McVoy Will Senn Warren Toomey Frank Wortrner On 30 May (23:00 UTC) we had our inaugural Annual General Meeting, as required by the Victorian rules. We elected the following officers: President: Warren Toomey Vice-president: Clem Cole Secretary: Greg Lehey Treasurer: David Arnold TUHSI is transparent, so we are putting all the relevant documents up at this location: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/ This includes the association rules and by-laws, list of members, the agendas and minutes of all meetings, the treasurer's reports etc. The minutes of the recent AGM are at http://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Agendas_and_Minutes/20260530-inaugural-agm So now the Unix Heritage Society (i.e. you, the people on the TUHS mailing list) is supported by a legal entity (TUHSI, run by the TUHS team members) to ensure that your donations will go where you want them to go. What happens next? First, we find our feet. We're planning to upgrade the server infrastructure under the leadership of Dan Cross. For you, this means one thing will change: minnie.tuhs.org will not go away, but it will be the name of Warren's personal machine. There is a redirector in place, but if you're used to using this name, please choose to use www.tuhs.org (or just tuhs.org) instead. Every two months, Warren or David will e-mail the TUHS list with an update on what funds have been spent where and the current balance of funds. You can find a FAQ about TUHSI at https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/tuhsi_faq.html. If you have any other questions, please e-mail them to the TUHS mailing list, tuhs at tuhs.org, so we can answer them and/or discuss any arising issues/suggestions. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: From tuhs at tuhs.org Wed Jun 3 22:29:21 2026 From: tuhs at tuhs.org (Douglas McIlroy via TUHS) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 08:29:21 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great news! And the span of the board, from grizzled veteran to grad student foretells a robust long life for TUHSI. Doug On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 2:58 AM Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS wrote: > Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. > > For over a quarter of a century, Warren Toomey has been running The > Unix Heritage Society. What wasn't clear to everybody was that this > was a one-man show, and that Warren paid all expenses out of his own > pocket. > > In mid-April, Warren asked for donations to help run the site. The > response was overwhelmingly positive, and the donation target (AUD > 3,728, about USD 2,600) was reached within 24 hours. Thanks to all > for your generosity. > > Now comes the hard part: who looks after this money? Behind the > scenes, Warren has had a few helpers known as the "TUHS Team". > We decided that the best way to protect your donations was to create an > Association according to Australian law. The state of Victoria has > the simplest rules, so we created The Unix Heritage Society Inc. in > Victoria. > > TUHSI has purposes which are legally protected: to preserve and maintain > historical UNIX artefacts, and to provide a forum for discussion of UNIX > and its history. The cost to run the server will keep both the Unix Archive > hosted (the artefacts) and the TUHS mailing list running (the forum). > > As a not-for-profit organisation, TUHSI must ensure that funds collected > are spent only on the TUHSI purposes, and TUHSI must make public the > details of how any funds are spent. > > The term “Inc.” has nothing to do with commercial companies. It's the > form required by the Victorian government. > > The TUHS team will form the initial members of the association. Many will > be well known to you. They are: > > Thalia Archibald > David Arnold > Kevin Bowling > Clem Cole > Dan Cross > Matt G. (segaloco) > Greg Lehey > Warner Losh > Larry McVoy > Will Senn > Warren Toomey > Frank Wortrner > > On 30 May (23:00 UTC) we had our inaugural Annual General Meeting, as > required by the Victorian rules. We elected the following officers: > > President: Warren Toomey > Vice-president: Clem Cole > Secretary: Greg Lehey > Treasurer: David Arnold > > TUHSI is transparent, so we are putting all the relevant documents up > at this location: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/ This includes the > association rules and by-laws, list of members, the agendas and > minutes of all meetings, the treasurer's reports etc. > > The minutes of the recent AGM are at > http://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Agendas_and_Minutes/20260530-inaugural-agm > > So now the Unix Heritage Society (i.e. you, the people on the TUHS mailing > list) is supported by a legal entity (TUHSI, run by the TUHS team members) > to ensure that your donations will go where you want them to go. > > What happens next? First, we find our feet. We're planning to > upgrade the server infrastructure under the leadership of Dan Cross. > For you, this means one thing will change: minnie.tuhs.org will not go > away, but it will be the name of Warren's personal machine. There is > a redirector in place, but if you're used to using this name, please > choose to use www.tuhs.org (or just tuhs.org) instead. > > Every two months, Warren or David will e-mail the TUHS list with an update > on what funds have been spent where and the current balance of funds. > > You can find a FAQ about TUHSI at > https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/tuhsi_faq.html. If you have any other > questions, please e-mail them to the TUHS mailing list, tuhs at tuhs.org, so > we can answer them and/or discuss any arising issues/suggestions. >