Re: Tee-Shirt Contest & Countries Eligibility

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.  Offering t-shirts may constitute as commerce
as well.  If you look at the Google Summer of Code Rules[1]:

Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, or residents
and nationals of Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar
(Burma), with whom we are prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in
commerce, are ineligible to participate.

I will forward to our legal counsel for feedback.   While I understand
the rules may be perceived as unfair or offensive, as a US non-profit
we are obligated to adhere to the embargo.  I'm open to removing the
cash prize if it can get around it.  I think Brian brings up a great
point to see if the community can help develop rules that provide
reasonable protection and avoid any sort of discrimination.

 Andreas and I are finalizing a couple of details (like getting the
email submission form to work!) and hope to announce this ASAP.

Cheers,

Paul

[1] http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#student_eligibility

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Brian Cameron
<brian cameron oracle com> wrote:
> 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
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