Jeff

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State of Delaware
Certificate of Incorporation
A Non-Stock Corporation

First:  The name of the corporation is ___________.

Second:  Its Registered Office in the State of Delaware is to be located at ______(street), in the City of _______ County of _______ ZIP Code ______.  The name of the registered agent is _________.[Note: I found someone to do this for $50 annually.]

Third:  The purposes for which this organization is organized are exclusively religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provisions of any future United States Internal Revenue law and to engage in any lawful act of activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.  This corporation shall be a non-profit corporation.  More specifically, the corporation is dedicated to the development and maintenance of on-line free, open content articles, discussions, collections of documents, information, and other informational databases that will be distributed free of charge to the public under a free documentation license such as the Creative Commons License or similar licensing scheme.  The corporation is committed to modeling the principals of "open source" in a variety of settings and for multiple purposes.

Fourth:  The corporation shall not have any corporate stock.

Fifth:  Upon the dissolution of the corporation, assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or corresponding section of any future Federal tax code, or shall be disposed of by a court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which the principal office of the organization is then located, exclusively for such purposes.

Sixth:  No part of the net income or assets of this corporation shall ever inure to the benefit of any director, officer or members thereof or to the benefit of any private individual.

Seventh:  The conditions of membership shall be those stated in the bylaws of the corporation.

Eighth:  The name and address of the incorporator are as follows:[Note: Could be anyone, but since my info is already public, I figure I'm a good choice. :-) ]

Jeffrey G. Causey
1905 Elmwood Dr.
Graham, NC 27253

I, the undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware, do make, file and record this certificate, and do certify that the facts herein stated are true, and I have accordingly hereunto set my hand this ______ day of _____, A.D. ___.

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