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Hello lovely people. Here are some questions which I think are reasonable regarding BiCon 2001. I'd like to hear people's answers to them.

#1 Do you think that paying £2,200 to rent the accommodation for Monday night was the correct decision?

#2 (If you are a 2001 team member...) What alternatives were considered?

#3 Do you think that concealing this from everyone at the time was the correct decision?

#4 I have suggested that those of us - I'm one of them - who paid to stay elsewhere on the Monday night deserve at least an apology. Do you agree?

#5 Do you think that paying the full cost of the flight and other expenses for someone from Australia was a reasonable decision?

#6 (If you are a 2001 team member...) What financial planning was done that persuaded the team that it was affordable?

#7 What should 2002 and subsequent years do to avoid a similar situation in future?

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lovingboth

One of the advantages of doing it via a company is that there is a very large pile of law which sets out the rights and responsibilities of the people involved.

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lizw.livejournal.com

Too large a body of law for anyone to use effectively as the basis for running something like Bicon, I suspect. The red tape would be suffocating.

From:

lovingboth

I don't think so, particularly given the amount of money we're talking about - well below the limit to allow for unaudited three line accounts (income, expenditure and the difference between the two) to be submitted to Companies House, for example.

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lizw.livejournal.com

Okay, I'm done here. If BiCon collectively wants to go down this route, I strongly recommend that it gets advice from a lawyer who knows more about this field than I do, because I really don't think it's a job for barrack-room lawyering (one of the firms that advertise in the Pink might even do it pro bono, if you're really lucky).