2009/6/29 Benjamin Caplan <[email protected]>: > Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> This is a public contract named the Charity Foundation. Parties to >> this contract are known as Helpful. > Intriguing. I've never seen a contract demonym that was an adjective > rather than a noun. > >> Departement to the Charity Foundation, if possible. Helpful players > Department. > >> If, at the beginning of a quarter, the Charity Foundation owns any >> assets, the Founder shall outline a Gift Plan of how those assets are >> to be distributed. Assets should be given to the players (if any) who >> have helped Agora significantly or players in great need. The Founder >> can then, with Agoran consent among the Helpful, act on behalf of the >> Charity Foundation to transfer assets from it as outlined by the Plan. >> If consent is not reached, the Founder shall outline a new Gift Plan. > Any Helpful player should be able to submit a Gift Plan, though the > Founder is still required to do so quarterly. Voting on multiple Gift > Plans should be possible in parallel (I think they are in the current > wording). > > The last sentence quoted above should read "The Founder SHALL outline as > many Gift Plans as necessary until consent is reached for one." This > way, when e outlines a new one before the previous one actually fails, e > isn't required to create a third Plan after the first fails. > > I was going to suggest that Gift Plan be renamed to something that > doesn't share an acronym with Grand Poobah, but caste is going to be > repealed soon anyway. > >> But is it a good idea? > Yes. > The Gift Plan has to be largely rewritten anyway because it currently only allows charity through asset transfer, and a lot of assets are not transferable just like that. I think the solution would have to be a very general clause of "making sure the Foundation's assets are put to good use" or something. Then if we ever have a system like the current notes again the gift plan could outline using them for increasing a certain player's caste or something.
I'm happy for any thoughts on names, by the way. English is not my first language and I'm not into charity or any kind of business or organisation, so I just picked names that sounded good. -- -Tiger
