[foundation-board] Fast approval needed: OSI Grant Agreement for €20k

Fri Sep 16 09:35:27 UTC 2011

On 13 Sep 2011, at 23:14, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> On 13 September 2011 20:34, Jordan S Hatcher
> <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 12 Sep 2011, at 10:55, Jason Kitcat wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12 Sep 2011, at 08:48, Becky Hogge wrote:
>>>> It looks like this grant is for OKF Deutschland - don't they have
>>>> their own Board? Why are we signing this off?
>>> 
>>> It is for OKF central but OKF DE will administer the funds for quick turn-around.
> 
> Long story short: (IMO) there was a minor confusion -- the money
> should have just come to us. However we ended up putting OKF-De bank
> details because amount was in euros and we think they may handle
> disbursing some of the money.
> 
> However, the money is contracted to OKF central.
> 
>> I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what that means.  If it is meant to go to OKF-DE, then they need to handle it do we not?
> 
> It is only going to their bank account. Legally the money goes to OKF
> central and OKF-DE are only holding it on OKF central's behalf.
> 
>> If we are receiving the money, then it needs to go to us. We can then contract OKF-DE to do the work can we not?
> 
> Whether we subcontract or not (or whether they disburse monies on our
> behalf or not) the central point is the money is OKF central's money
> and OKF DE are only holding it on OKF Central's behalf (it is not
> their money).

I quite strongly feel that we should not be doing this for all sorts of reasons. They basically all boil down to OKF-DE is a separate organisation with their own legal entity, financial responsibilities, etc, Do not use their bank account as one of ours or ask them to hold money for us or disburse for us. Anything else will just confuse matters and open us up to legal problems and confuse our relationship with our chapters.

We have a euro account, please use it.

Thanks

Jordan

> 
> Rufus
> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Jordan
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> All the best,
>>> Jason
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