Op woensdag 18-10-2006 om 15:12 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Ian: > The Ubuntu Brazil team is working on our application to become an > official team. We want to clear up some issues before we submit as the > issue of 'official status' is causing a bit of debate. The way I read > it 'approved' means approved by the community council with no other > meaning whatsoever.
I think you can best think about it as an equivalent of individuals becoming an Ubuntu Member: you have done valuable things for the Ubuntu community and get official recognition for that. > I am asking this because there is also a desire here to become > approved as in the sense of 'a legally existing body'. I assume *this* > process is a completely separate thing. Completely unrelated. :) > I remember a while back the French (or it might have been German) LoCo > team became official in this sense.Has this worked out well?? What are > the pitfalls to look into?? I'm on the board of a non-profit association that's not related to Ubuntu, and we became a legal entity mainly because it's safer for us and our volunteers (including the fact that we have to pay less for a better insurance), it makes things easier when selling T-shirts (sales tax), it's easier to find sponsors, etc. On the downside: you have to pay for and put time into some legal paperwork and have to do legally approved accounting (double bookkeeping in Belgium). I suggest you make a list of advantages and disadvantages that apply in your case (Brazilian law might be quite different than e.g. Belgian, French or German law on some topics) and then discuss whether it's worth it. -- Jan Claeys -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
