Hello Magdalen, On Sa, 2014-11-08 at 14:43 +0000, Magdalen Berns wrote: > I think it's fair to assume volunteers can't really afford to pay > individual liability cover for volunteer work and perhaps that they > should not be asked to pay for it either since they are making > valuable regular contributions. Perhaps projects (including GNOME) > involved in OPW (or generally, for that matter) should be asked > consider covering all their card carrying members with liability cover > to protect their members as they carry out volunteer work?
I do agree that having this sort of coverage for foundation members and/or people signing a contract for e.g. OPW would be nice. This would actually be a good incentive to become a foundation member and/or sign the OPW contract in the first place.[1] Benjamin [1] Just accidentally breaking something while manning a GNOME booth at a conference can easily cost a couple of hundred/thousand dollars. A liability coverage would protect the volunteer in this case if they do not have an insurance of their own.
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