[Linux-aus] Incorporating an open source geospatial organisation

[Janet Hawtin]

On 7/17/07, Del <del at babel.com.au> wrote:

> The SCA was incorporated as an association in SA.  They found that despite
> having $10m public liability insurance they couldn't hire halls from the city
> of Brisbane because the QLD government wouldn't recognise the validity of
> our insurance in QLD unless we were incorporated there.  That was pretty
> much the nail in the coffin for the incorporated association route, and they
> ended up reforming as a company limited by guarantee.

Insurance is really changing how we are able to function as people in
a community isn't it. Are there nations that do the whole risk thing
differently?

Janet