On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Vikram Vincent <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/10/6 Vickram Crishna <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:31 AM, justin joseph < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Especially to talk of consequences if some one commits for something and > >> does > >> not ahere, this being mostly voluntarily work people can get stuck up > >> with a 1000 > >> personal issues and make go to outer space, who cares! nodes come in and > >> go out > >> and that was the fundamental idea behing FOSCOMM if am not wrong. > > > > However, in this case, FOSSCOMM (broadly) proposes an offer to take care > of > > schoolteacher training. If this was being done by a commercial > organisation, > > then (in theory) it would accept any liabilities for non-performance, so > > that base would be covered. I mean things like the costs of > schoolteachers > > showing up, and finding the instructors/facilitators absent, so the > entire > > money goes down the drain. > > This was one of the problems identified with the definition of > FOSSCOMM - a network of loose nodes. Assume that one of the nodes > accepts money for a project on behalf of FOSSCOMM and then disappears, > are the other nodes liable? How is the accounting going to be done? > What is the legal framework that governs the functioning of FOSSCOMM? > Is this a network to promote business for the nodes or is FOSSCOMM in > itself a business entity? I tend to think we should not allow ourselves to get distracted down that path. This is a particular case, and it may lead to other such cases, but that does not make it a general rule, an either-or kind of situation. >From what I understand, the decision to go for a registered body is already taken (right?), with all the attendant hoohah about bank accounts and so on. So if this case is pursued to its logical positive conclusion, FOSSCOMM will take the contract and any moneys involved, and will 'subcontract' the work to volunteers, contributors, whatever. In special cases where advances are necessary, FOSSCOMM can take whatever guarantees make sense - we will need a 'steering council' to manage such things on a day-to-day basis, of course. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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