On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:32 PM Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> now we have a model where PyCon India [1] is organized on rotation from >> various users groups from around country,these users groups aka chapters >> have no formal body they exist on Mailing lists and meetup groups [2] they >> first show case the strenght in organizing the event of this magnitude then >> we rally behind them to make it happen, its the local organizing community >> which drives and decides how they want to spend the money for an event , >> there are no gatekeepers at the end of the event all the financials are >> made public after every event. >> >> > Quite impressive, this also encourages smaller local groups to be active > rather than having a powerful central body which inevitably tends to become > distanced from those on the ground. > > Does every conference need to find a new supporting institution to handle > financials? Thats a part that can burn out volunteers trying to organize > events/conferences and making sure the accounting is taken care of. > > > Coming back to the original reasons for an OSM chapter to be able to officially use the OSM trademark, do the python user groups not have this issue?
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