Governing Rules: towards distributed & digital-first community
Our non-profit, association aims to support democratisation of scientific discovery & innovation. We're trying to increase visibility of our research by primarily engaging high-school students, while providing computational-science guidance & computing resources for their research.
Although legally our unincoroprated association doen't have to consider the following, we have chosen to act in good faith to our potential partners (and the larger community we interact with). Our association will reduce risk in particular areas that the govening body of Australian charities has determined is important for good governance. Our organisation will determine (define) the level of risk reduction that is reasonable in each area.
Our fundraising techniques include share-market investing & revenue gained from consulting services. Revenue raised will be used to purchase computer hardware or learning access that assists the non-pofit organisation achieve their mission [*]. Such finances will be managed on by our trustee, Nicholas C Howlett (founding member of our unincorporated association).
Our trustee can demonstrate his commitment to computational science via his personally-funded & self-building of 'high-perfomance computing' used for protein-folding computations (valued at approx. $AU1750- and which took 10+ hours to develop), and for fluid-dynamics computations (valued at approx. $AU600- and which took 72+ hours to develop).
This is in addition to other experimental (pilot) programs that have yet to achieve demonstratable outcomes. To help verification of his role as a trustee, Nick will ensure that he is able to demonstrate no financially-inappropriate activity via providing (relevant) personal, financial transactions to the ATO if requested by them.
[*] The assets and income of our association shall be applied solely in furtherance of its above-mentioned objects and no portion shall be distributed directly or indirectly to any member of the association, both while it operates and if it winds up.