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  From: <michaeld@senet.com.au>
  To  : David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
        Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:42:06 GMT

Re: LinuxSA, Organisers and incorporation

David Drury wrote:

> Incorporation doesn't mean membership fees.

Yup.

> Incorporation will incur a once off cost, but no on-going one.

Yup.

> Incorporation will mean we need a constitution, office bearers (president
> secretary etc), and an AGM.

Yup.

> Incorporation will mean that LinuxSA exists outside a figment of our
> combined imaginations.

What about the mailing list?!?  That's concrete! :-)

> Incorporation will mean that those who are seen to be the organisers can't
> be held responsible or liable for any problems that occurr as a result of
> holding meeting or events.

I'm no legal type, but who is liable if the incorporated body is liable?  It's
members?  It's elected leadership?  Tux the penguin?

> Incorporaion means we can be insured, but we don't have to be. this means
> companies can insure individual events in our name.

Again I think insurance is practically manditory in our litigious society, just
in case someone slips over at one of our monthly meetings, hurts their back, and
decides to sue. 

> Incorporation means we can make official representations and approaches to
> busineses and governemnt for porlitical reasons, and to ask for
> sponsorship for events.

Yup.
 
> I am not saying here we should or should not be incorporated, just some
> considerations when thinking about it.

Me too.

Michael...



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