On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 03 March 2009 10:30:16 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> * Positions (IMPORTANT) > > handling money is the point where conferences here get into trouble. In order > to open a bank account one needs to have a registered society/organisation. Of > course an individual can open an account, but very few people would want to > take the risk. We faced this problem last year with fossconf08 chennai. The > LUG was not registered. NRC-FOSS handled the finances - it being a quasi- > government body and subject to audit meant that no one could swallow the funds > - or be accused of doing so. This is a possible solution - of course NRC-FOSS > will take its cut for the administrative expenses involved. The other solution > is to set up a registered body, but I feel this would be premature as we do > not know what the response will be - this could be discussed in the conference > and a body set up there somewhat on the lines of linux conf australia.
Yes, this is really something we need to discuss. BTW, +1 for NRC-FOSS administering finance for PyCon India. Regards, Baiju M _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
