[Replying to Rick Moen:] ...
The experience of Silicon Valley Linux User Group with these matters was not good -- though it was eventually worked out at the expense of some serious problems and hard feelings. ...
Thanks for that cautionary tale. I think we'd all agree that that's an unlikely scenario with LA, since we know LA pretty well. It's a kind-of amplified near-worst-case scenario. Reading it, though, did make me think of one issue: Disincorporating and transferring assets (like domain ownership) to LA would make for a single point of failure for incorporated Linux SIGs in Australia. I can't think of any likely scenario in which this would happen -- it's more a gut feeling about single points of failure. If some weird unexpected glitch took down LA, we'd still have LUV. And if some unexpected weird glitch took down LUV, we'd still have LA. I think that redundancy would be good for LA too. ...
I am _not_ claiming that this calamity is likely for LUV. However, if you want to make sure it cannot happen, then transfer ownership of the luv.asn.au Internet domain to friendly insider individuals and keep it there. ...
Not even that would be an adequate solution. Even trusted individuals can get incapacitated or die. I can imagine setups that protect against that, but they'd be no simpler than our current setup as an incorporated association. Also, thanks for the User-Group-HOWTO. I've learnt a lot from reading it. -- Smiles, Les (as just LUV member).