[Baypiggies] Pycon 2008

[Guido van Rossum]

On 1/9/07, Dennis Reinhardt <DennisR at dair.com> wrote:
> At 05:12 PM 1/9/2007, Alvin Wang wrote:
> >Would BayPiggies be interested in being the host organization
>
> BayPiggies is not an organization and cannot assume legal liability or
> insure anything.  At some point, when a facilities contract needs to be
> signed, there is no legal entity which can sign.
>
> BayPiggies needs to have
>
>          a) a legal structure,
>          b) volunteer(s) who will accept personal liability or
>          c) sponsor(s) who will sign contracts

No, the PSF takes care of all the legal liability, as it has done for
all past PyCons.

The only thing you need is one or more volunteers with local
connections willing to put in time.

The PSF will sign the papers, has an existing insurance contract, and
has enough money in the bank to take the financial risk (of course
this also means the PSF board needs to approve the budget).

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)