Re: New Canadian nonprofit for trademark, postgresql.org domain, etc.

On fre, 2011-05-06 at 21:53 +0200, Cédric Villemain wrote:
> > If someone gets motivated to build up Canadian community activity,
> the
> > membership of the NPO could be expanded in the future, and new board
> > members could be elected. Otherwise, the nonprofit could run under
> a
> > stewardship board indefinitely.
>
> I think it might be better if the association don't need (or have )
> activity other than 'technical' and to set up another nonprofit
> association for real activity.

I was going to raise the same argument.

If the corporation gets involved in general fun around PostgreSQL,
similar to what other non-profits around the world are doing, it will
expose itself to the possibility of legal challenges, bookkeeping,
financial audits, perhaps even forced foreclosure if the books or
paperwork get out of order. All of this is theoretical, but then again,
the whole premise of the discussion is the theoretical possibility that
something could happen to the current owner.

If instead you limit yourselves to holding and maintaining the mentioned
assets, the board meets once a year to approve last year's minutes, file
the paperwork, and go home, you can't do much wrong.