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I spent several years as part of the larger non-profit organization KDE e.V. which managed a large open source project with hundreds of members and a budget of about $200k per year (mostly spent on servers, but also an annual in person development meeting). I also professional operated as a sysop in the BBS era, and network admin during the early internet (dialup) days. Hit me up if you want some additional support in any way.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton

All of the above sound super generic, and maybe that is the goal, but you sound like startup think-tanks, political parties, or lobbying groups. Also, acronyms seriously suck. Also, you want something that is trademark protectable, even as a non-profit, so you can use trademark law as a means to shut down impersonating websites and services that are acting in bad faith.

Thus I counterproposal a bunch of nonsense single word but memorable names. I checked domain availability for each (at least one of .ca, .net, or .org), and google, but didn't run trademark searches.

Fedican

Nortifed

Librefed

Polecomm

Federom

Tredecim (Latin word for 13, which is surprisingly available, but not likely trademark protectable)

Fedinauts

Canulan

When I named my company, I specifically chose a name that secretly felt like it should be a corporation name in some far future sci fi setting.

I like Open Comms Canada the most. It's general so it'll allow for a broader range of platforms to fall under it.

This post says it is an update, but searching through c/main I'm not seeing anything that looks like it laid the groundwork for this. Consequently, I feel like I'm missing information.

1. What is the goal/purpose of the not for profit business registration?
2. Is status as a registered charity being considered/pursued?
3. As another poster asked, why is this being registered provincially instead of federally (I strongly recommend registering federally unless there is some hidden benefit for registering in BC).
4. What is the board/governance structure being proposed?
5. Are bylaws being drafted at this stage, or are default bylaws (not sure if BC has those, federally NFP's do) being applied?

If you plan on using the abbreviation a lot, I'd recommend not using Federated Comms Canada as the abbreviation is already commonly known as the US government's Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It would get confusing and hard to search for. I'd suggest removing any other commonly known government abbreviations for the same reason.

When its Canadian it should be in French, because it sounds cooler, sorry for my google translate:

• Plateformes Fédérées Canadiennes
• Fédération ouverte canadienne

I like Canadian Open Federation (Fédération Libre Canadienne)

Personally I like Communities or Communication(s) over "Comms" because it's more specific.

Not that I have incorporated hundreds of entities, but isn't "Canada/Canadian" a protected term in BC because it can imply a link to the government?

I know nothing about B.C., but I do know that it is a protected term in other provinces that are part of the NWP (New West Partnership. A thing where BC, AB, SK, and MB work together to make it easier to run a corporation across all 4 provinces).

The financial statements required when filing the Annual Maintenance of the non-prof, does BC have specific requirements for the qualification of the Auditor (AKA, do you guys need to hire an CPA for your year-end review)?

Is there a reason why you are registering Provincially instead of Federally?

Canadian Unified Matrix?