I like the suggestion regarding copyright. But I do not know enough to know
how it fits with GPL or GNU
However the legal entity issue was really a question of should we track
donations and user demographics in phase 1 or phase 2. ASULUG needs to know
these things as we give receipts for charitable donations, and we apply for
government and private funding, some of which is only interested in certain
demographics (Minorities, Women, Students, Educators, First time users of your
service, etc, etc, etc)
So, when we move to phase 2 (Mega Installfest and ASULUG Installfest) we need
to have these things tracked. However, for phase 1 we may be able to just
track members/volunteers and their related skill sets and duties.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> PLUG is not a legal entity but AZOTO is. AZOTO was designed to be the
> legal entity behind PLUG. I would suggest that you deal with the issue of
> copyright early in the process.
>
> If you have several developers I do not think you want each author being
> the sole holder of their copyright for practical purposes. It would be my
> suggestion that copyright assignment be given to the FSF, AZOTO or another
> legal entity like ASULUG. Each developer would still keep their copyright
> authority to what they wrote, but the work as a whole would have an entity
> able to defend it if necessary without having to wrangle all the
> individual copyright holders.
>
> Just a suggestion.
>
> -Derek
> > Then we should wait until phase 2 for tracking donations. ASULUG is a
> > legal
> > entity, and we do give charitable receipts, and we do require demographics
> > for
> > funding purposes. But for now we should focus only on the regular plug
> > fests
> > and keep the second half of this as a phase 2 issue.
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Alan Dayley wrote:
> >
> >> > I would believe this to be a must, not only should we be tracking our
> >> > volunteers, but also relating them to skill sets, donations, etc.
> >> Think
> >> > of how easy it would be come March of next year when all you have to
> >> do
> >> > is query your database to generate charitable donation receipts (I
> >> know,
> >> > I think like an accountant ;)
> >>
> >> Just to be clear here: PLUG is not a legal entity and does not track
> >> donations or funds of any kind. Anything of value given to the group is
> >> not tracked. PLUG does not accept cash or any instruments of money
> >> since
> >> we have no entity, structure or policy to handle it.
> >>
> >> That said, tracking who can do what is a good idea that has been bounced
> >> around for some time. It would have many purposes even beyond the
> >> group.
> >> For example, Thrum would like to setup a list of people knowledgeable is
> >> various subjects that could be guest lecturers at SCC or other community
> >> college campuses (campi?).
> >>
> >> > In addition, we should also track our customers (ie. those that come
> >> to
> >> > installfest for help) As accurate information will lead to increased
> >> > funding (I am missing out on a bunch of funding because I have no
> >> > information on who has been coming to our ASU installfests, -- Then
> >> > again, I have very little info on the ASULUG members as well)
> >>
> >> Again, funding is not the goal. Helping new "customers" is an excellent
> >> goal.
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> >>
> >>
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