LoCo governance and incorporation policy?

[Matthew East]

Hi,

On 10/09/2007, Christer Edwards <christer.edwards at ubuntu.com> 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.

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Matthew East
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