Hi, On 10/09/2007, Christer Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 06:19:30PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > When this suggestion has arisen in the past, as far as I know our > > > policy on local teams setting up unincorporated associations or even > > > incorporated associations has been that it be strongly discouraged. > > > Although the issue hasn't been discussed in detail recently as far as > > > I know, personally I would remain of that view. > > > > We had this debate over a year ago in Ubuntu-Au. We came to realise that > > maintaining any kind of official association would introduce an > > administrative burden that could threaten to turn a fun community project > > into a chore. > > > > The moral: keep things loose, keep things fun :) > > This is the stance of the US Teams Project but we keep getting people popping > up crying about > needing it. All of the established and approved teams within the US have > functioned without funding > or liability coverage. If something from higher-up can communicate these > additional "chores" as > very highly discouraged it would be appreciated. Apparently some of the new > teams are not listening > to the US Teams leadership.
I sort of did that in my post, I hope. But if you want the whole community council to give their view, I don't see why it can't be discussed. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
