[awards-program] Rules Question: "Sponsor"

[Jim Grisanzio]

Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Teresa and I discussed this issue yesterday with the lawyers.
>
> Note that the current draft of the Rules I received yesterday says:
>
> "16. SPONSOR: The Sponsor of this Contest is the OpenSolaris Community 
> at www.opensolaris.org.  Sun Microsystems, Inc., is funding all of the 
> prize awards, however, Sun Microsystems shall have no liability or 
> responsibility in connection with the Contest other than to fund the 
> prize awards specified herein."
>   

Oh, sorry. I had the wrong draft of the text. But Teresa did explain the 
issue. I just got the terms confused, so I'm clear now. I agree.

> Usually, a contest is funded and run by the same entity.  But in this 
> case, Sun is funding prizes and leaving the individual communities to 
> run/manage the programs.  The term Sponsor is used throughout the Rules 
> to define management of the project: the Sponsor can disqualify entries, 
> decide not to pay out prizes, etc.
>
> We can't use the wording noted above because our constitution defines 
> the "OpenSolaris community" and outlines processes for how that 
> community makes decision, and that community has not voted to Sponsor 
> this contest.
>
> I think the best idea is to change the first sentence above to:
>
> "The Sponsor of this contest is the XXX Project in the Advocacy 
> Community Group on www.opensolaris.org."
>
> But that means we need a project.  Jim, is it possible to initiate a 
> Project really quickly to manage the contest (since we're supposed to 
> announce the rules on Monday)?

Yes. I'll send the draft to Advocacy. We need 2 +1s to move ahead. 
Having a project will be a cleaner way to implement next steps.

Jim
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