Hi, On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Baiju M <mba...@zeomega.net> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: >> On Tuesday 03 March 2009 10:30:16 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >>> * Positions (IMPORTANT) >> >> handling money is the point where conferences here get into trouble. In order >> to open a bank account one needs to have a registered society/organisation. >> Of >> course an individual can open an account, but very few people would want to >> take the risk. We faced this problem last year with fossconf08 chennai. The >> LUG was not registered. NRC-FOSS handled the finances - it being a quasi- >> government body and subject to audit meant that no one could swallow the >> funds >> - or be accused of doing so. This is a possible solution - of course NRC-FOSS >> will take its cut for the administrative expenses involved. The other >> solution >> is to set up a registered body, but I feel this would be premature as we do >> not know what the response will be - this could be discussed in the >> conference >> and a body set up there somewhat on the lines of linux conf australia.
I think it is pretty clear we need a registered non-profit body to handle the finances, it can't be an individual account. What is not clear is whether we should register a new body or use an existing one. It is ok to piggy back on an existing organization like NRC-FOSS. But we need to discuss this point thoroughly, including the pros and cons. In long term, a dedicated organization should be a better solution, but in the short term, especially with lack of time for creating/managing one, we could just piggy back, if it is fine with NRC-FOSS. > > Yes, this is really something we need to discuss. > > BTW, +1 for NRC-FOSS administering finance for PyCon India. I would keep this for an IRC or direct discussion. Let us try to discuss this in the chat tonight. > > > Regards, > Baiju M > - Show quoted text - > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > Regards, -- -Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
