[Actionchix] LinuxChix as a legal entity

[Anna]

For Linuxchix Africa we have country representatives from all the 56 
countries of Africa. These representatives form the Council and they play a 
major role in country projects. 

Then the Linuxchix Africa Board consists of 5 members, each representing a 
region in Africa - North, West, South, Central, East, and nominated from the 
Council members.

In terms of its legality, Linuxchix Africa is a Section 21 company, meaning 
that it is a non profit organisation. For now it is incorporated in South 
Africa but the ideal is to have a Pan African organisation.

It would be nice to have a model for countries, continents (Africa, North 
Ameria, South America, Europe, Asia, etc) and then an inter-continental 
model, i.e., how we can assist and support each other as a worlwide 
organisation.

Anna.

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From: Dancer Vesperman <dancer at anthill.echidna.id.au>
To: Mary Gardiner <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org>, actionchix at linuxchix.org
Sent: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:09:20 +1000
Subject: Re: [Actionchix] LinuxChix as a legal entity

> Note - Linuxchix doesn't have to be the legal entity involved. If 
> there's issues with the name Linuxchix for the entity, simply form 
> up the absolute minimum requirement for a group that meets a 
> qualification as some form of sleek legal entity (a trust, a holding,
>  whatever), give it any name we like, assign it the rights, and go.
> 
> There's no reason that you can't put together GirlGeeks Media 
> Holdings, assign the rights for a dollar, and have it handle 
> licensing for any linuxchix logos and representations.
> 
> It satisfies the basics: A group of people. A legal entity. No 
> tradename issues.
> 
> Mary Gardiner wrote:
> > Just for the record, since it's starting to come up in the logo
> > discussion, the idea of LinuxChix being a formal not-for-profit
> > organisation of some kind has been raised numerous times over a period
> > of years. It's generally been agreed to be a good idea for a few
> > reasons, mostly continuity.
> >
> > What's the problem?
> >
> > No one's done it yet. There are certainly some obstacles to overcome
> > (which country would we register it in? who would administer it? what
> > are the tax implications? etc etc), but the basic problem is that for
> > whatever reason no one has thought it worth overcoming them enough to
> > actually volunteer to do it. Which is fine, because it would be a
> > reasonable amount of work in the short/medium term, and you're not
> > seeing *me* volunteering. ;) I'm just filling people in on what the
> > status of the idea is.
> >
> > If anyone is willing to coordinate the effort of investigating and
> > proposing a model, and anyone is willing to implement that model, then
> > this would probably be a good thing for us. People would need to
> > chat extensively to Jenn Vesperman, the current coordinator, during this
> > process. Until someone does this though, we need to treat LinuxChix as
> > an informal association of individuals. It works quite well, even if it
> > is a pain for things like copyright law.
> >
> > -Mary
> >
> > PS I don't want this to turn into a "LinuxChix could..." or "LinuxChix
> > should..." thread, just because we've had those discussions before on
> > this issue, and it's evidently not helping us move forward. If someone
> > volunteers to coordinate a LinuxChix-organisation, that will be the time
> > to share strategies, tips, ideas and worries. Thanks :)
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