Re: Tee-Shirt Contest & Countries Eligibility

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

On 11/17/10 12:36 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 11/17/10 13:35, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > For what it's worth, GNOME pretty much ignores such regulations in all its
> > other dealings.  Doesn't necessarily mean that it's violating any law.  It
> > just doesn't bother checking.  Doing it for such a small contest sounds
> > overkill to me.
>
> Plus, if not paying the winners cash means that we can get away with it, I
> suggest we just give them ten tshirts instead of $100.

The GNOME Foundation did put some thought into creating rules for the 
cash prizes associated with the GOPA program a few years back:

  http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/a11y/rules/

There will probably be ongoing desires to do things like have contests
with cash prizes, so there would be some value in reworking these sorts
of rules into something more generic we could use as general rules for
these sorts of contests.

Is there any interest in the community to help out in this sort of
capacity?  I think it would be good if we could have better rules that
both provide reasonable protection and avoid any sort of discrimination.

Brian