Proposal - creating a panel for judging about legal issues

[Zbigniew Koziol]

TLUG is not a registered organization. However, according to the Canadian 
law, though it is not a formal organization, it may be treated as such in 
certain cases.

Also, the voice of its members, speaking on behalf of the organization, 
though they are not registered officially members, just users of this mailing 
list, has some legal significance in certain cases.

We are here a community. Though informal, we are organized to some extend, 
and as such we have both the right to express our opinion as a community, and 
to expect that our voice is treated seriously by official institutions.

There are certainly many issues going on in the background. For instance, we 
may imagine, someone from this list did ask somebody else on this list to 
work for her from home on programming. But later on she forget to pay for his 
work. Should we both go to official institutions in that case? Would not it 
be better to explain and possibly solve the problems first within our own 
community? To accept (or not) a judgement of a group of people who did 
volunteer to be involved in such a work on judging? Wouldnt both care for 
their own reputation?

One may imagine many problems on which such a group of volunteers could work. 
These problems are not limited to issues within our own community.

zb.


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