On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Theo Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel Stoni schrieb: > ... >> ... having a proper legal status on our own (ubuntu-ch) >> would be really useful. Founding a formal non-profit association (Legal >> Status: 'Verein') is not a big deal and would make sense in many regards: >> - have determined structure/organization/decision making, >> - ease communication with business contacts, >> - pay expense, accept donations & do investments for useful things. >> Can we have a discussion on this? a vote? Are there experienced people >> on the list? Or is there anything in place I'm not aware of? > > Pro: > > A formal legal structure is sometimes needed. For example, I am in the > International Human Powered Vehicle Association and we didn't bother to > set up a formal legal structure. As a result, some Americans have stolen > our name and website, so we problably have to rename to World Human > Powered Vehicle Association. > > > Con: > > A formal structure isn't really needed for low-key non-profit activity > in Switzerland. Just having such a structure doesn't mean that there > will be much activity, as is the case with Wilhelm Tux. We already have > too many small associations.
Hi, This discussion pops up from time to time on this list. Please look through the archives. So far there hasn't been any practical need for it AFAICS. I prefer we organize release parties and discuss Ubuntu rather than General Assemblies and discuss our statutes :) But again, this was already discussed, I don't want to revoke a new discussion and just repeat myself. For names and web sites, we are protected by Canonical's legal department. Regarding Tribaal's original request, I don't think we need old hardware, it wouldn't fit into our activities - unless we extend them of course. I would be interested in a discussion about consolidating the forest of Swiss Linux and FOSS entities in order to get more "real work" done. And even more interested in discussing the "real work" itself :) Tormod -- Ubuntu-ch mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ch
