Saturday, May 5, 2007

Archsociety Organizational Policies?

It is said that ArchSociety believes in 'Open-source Knowledge Sharing'.
But still we couldn't set up a fixed legal strategy of publishing contents. Personally I want to open up all the knowledge sources including copyrighted books and articles to all of the architecture community. But it's not legal by global laws. There's a small chance of it's legalization as copyright law researchers are now thinking of being soft for community sharing and contents used for academic purposes. ArchSociety is trying to follow that guideline. But still there are confusions. ArchSociety always wants to remain honest in this regard. If we 'steal' some contents from books or any other source we are careful atleast to mention the name of honorable source of the content. (See ArchSociety Forum Rules no. 4).

Another important thing is the physical validity of ArchSociety as an organization or a community or a company (... don't know what it should be!) by law. ArchSociety runs under a sustainable 'self-help' policy. Which means ArchSociety tries to earn by itself what it spends. Still ArchSociety is running by extra compensation than it earns by itself. But soon it may start earning more than it spends. Then where this earned money will go? Or should it be the property of the organization for future growth and for arranging future activities? What should be the policy of the organization regarding earning and spending?
First of all ArchSociety is still not a legally registered organization. It will require a legal registration which is globally valid.
I still can't figure out these things. But now it's the time to move for these issues.

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