[OSCOM] Re: [Board] OSCOM domain

Paul Everitt wrote:

>
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> Paul Everitt wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In a perfect world, the legal entity disappears, no longer  
>>> presenting  this false dichotomy between the OSCOM community and  
>>> OSCOM  organization.  Also, a big number of silly headaches (e.g.  
>>> audits)  goes away as well.
>>
>>
>> how do you want to handle the money?
>> What if a conference would produce a loss and bills cannot be paid?
>> Who is going to be responsible?
>
>
> To continue the "perfect world" hypothesis (meaning, I don't know if  
> it has more negatives than positives), "a different legal entity" is  
> my answer.
>
> I was at a workshop for people that run open source foundations.  We  
> discussed what a pain it is to have all the baggage to turn a  
> community into a proper entity.  Baggage that most aren't excited  
> about.  There was discussion about a common umbrella entity whose job  
> it was to share those costs and provide a better guarantee of longevity.
>
> I think some progress was made on this afterwards, though I haven't  
> looked at the details.
>
> If that idea didn't pan out, it would still remain an open question  
> whether the upside of running large scale conferences was worth the  
> responsibilities of the legal entity.  If so, we're sure to have lots  
> of volunteers for the audit committee. :^)


Whatever it is, in the end it needs to be concrete and resolve the issue
of responsibility (as soon as money is involved) otherwise just somebody
will have to bleed in the end and I guess none of us wants that.

Michi


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