HLB is just a bunch of us interested in IT and seeing if we can get it to run. James created our mission statement when he started the Meetup group. We have no formal association and structure and we are not registered as a company or a charity.
All that is great and possibly the best way to progress but unfortunately, or otherwise, we have a website and with that comes some legal requirements. During our interactions with our hosting and other IT companies they have requested our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Discourse software offers boilerplates for these documents and I have hacked on them a little to Australianise them. The draft Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are now on the Discourse web site along with the pre-existing FAQ.
I invite you to review them and suggest any additions and deletions. If there are changes I hope we can agree upon them via consensus but if a formal vote is required we can probably arrange that at a future meeting.
TIA for you assistance in these administrivial matters.
I’m not in any way knowledgable in the legal stuff, but it looks good, @zeeclor.
I’ll restate that I’m not at all knowledgeable about legal stuff, but the only thought I have is that the ToS makes reference to Homelab Brisbane as if it’s a separate entity (e.g., “Homelab Brisbane gives you permission..”, “Homelab Brisbane may restrict, suspend,…”). Given that Homelab Brisbane isn’t a legal entity as such (no formal association, not registered as a company/charity, no ABN, etc.), does that need to be changed to a specific legal entity’s name, or something still generic but tweaked slightly such as “The organisers of the Homelab Brisbane group on Meetup.com” to tie it back to Meetup & the group’s organisers as the relevant parties?
I appreciate that’s really nitpicky, but if the intent is to meet requirements to play with service providers such as hosting, etc., the lack of formal entity named Homelab Brisbane might come up with one of them.
These terms govern the use of the Internet forum at http://discourse.homelabbrisbane.com.au. To use the forum, you must agree to these terms. The forum is run by a community group, Homelab Brisbane. Homelab Brisbane is an unincorporated association in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.