!! Administrative Group
! Overview
This group will oversee legal, monetary, group membership and contact information, and the interface with any Corporate Steward(s).  It is envisioned that a Corporate Steward will be associated with the community owned SME project to provide or arrange for hosting services and oversee the legal and monetary footing for the community. The guidance for the relationship between the Corporate Steward and the community will be a Social Contract.
The Administrative Group will be led by a Business Agent.  The Business Agent (BA) will strive to support the efforts of all roles in the Administrative Group.

Business Agent
This person will lead the Administrative Group and will assume responsibility for the business affairs of the SME community. This person shall serve as Chairman of the Board of SME Server Inc. The duties of this position include:
* Act as the agent for the community when legal documents must be completed / signed.
* Oversee or delegate the completion of any tax and / or corporate documents as required by law. 
* Collect and present the legal, business and other relevant concerns / issues of the other group leaders and present them to the Corporate Steward (via the Liaison) for resolution. 
* Document and file any correspondence, vote / polling results, internal communications and approvals or any other document needed to document, record and prove valid procedural processes have been followed in the conduct of our business affairs. 
* The Business Agent may create the posts of Administrative Leader (AL's) as needed to offload tasks and delegate responsibility for different functions as needed due to time and workload issues. This delegation may include financial activities, reporting, disbursement of funds, etc.

The Business Agent shall be responsible for monitoring license compliance for the community, ensuring both that the community adheres to the provisions of the licenses of the software that we use, and that any licenses applied to software created by community members are enforced.

The BA shall create a license enforcement team to carry out this directive. The team will broadly ensure that any material on the community website or in the community software distribution channels that is involved in any licensing or other IP dispute is promptly withdrawn. The material shall be withheld from the community until a resolution is reached that either allows its publication or mandates its deletion or modification. All community volunteers and members have a duty to make such issues known to the BA promptly so that legal problems can be avoided. The BA is given the authority to direct the CM and/or DM to remove the specified materials immediately. The BA will also function as the liaison with other external entities to promptly resolve these issues. 

The team will: 
* Maintain a list of the licenses for all packages used in the SME Server OS. 
* Monitor these packages for compliance, and for any license changes by the originator or packager. 
* Maintain list of appropriate places within the SME Server distribution for copyright assertions.  Work with any individual who contributes to SME Server to ensure that any code has a copyright notice in the appropriate place(s). Monitor any re releases from other groups for the appropriate copyright notices 
* Respond as quickly as possible to any license disputes. 
* Fully document any processes, contacts, procedures, etc., used for this purpose. 
* Engage the copyright holder as required to ensure complete understanding of the license(s) in question and arrange for the possibility of any enforcement action. 
* Contact any organization that is deemed to be in violation of our licenses, and work with them to achieve compliance. 
* Engage the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as required to address any questions concerning licensing, and to investigate any enforcement actions that may become necessary. Assemble all documents, contacts, test results, etc., prior to contacting the FSF, and follow the process(es) they have created for this purpose. 
* Contact any appropriate organizations to bring our licensing disputes into the public arena. 

It is the specific intent of this section of the constitution to require that the SME Server community operate and remain in the most strict compliance with the licenses of others, and to attempt to resolve any dispute as quickly and amicably as possible. In particular, any enforcement actions or public notices of perceived license violations shall only occur after a thorough study of the issues involved, appropriate advice has been gathered, and multiple attempts to resolve any issue have failed.

Administrative Team
This group is comprised of people who wish to contribute to the organizational activities or the conduct of our financial affairs to the advancement of the community.

Corporate Steward
The Corporate Steward will be a bona-fide corporation registered with the appropriate governmental authorities. The corporate steward shall donate the following services:
"Oversee the hosting of the community website.
"Provide the legal means for the existence of a non-profit organization to represent the SME Server community. This organization will be named SME Server, Inc., and will be registered with the appropriate government authorities. The non-profit organization will assume control of the community website content and trademarks, act as guardian of any monetary and intellectual assets, and fulfill any legal requirements for its existence. SME Server, Inc. will be controlled by a Board of Directors.
" Provide services for the day-to-day operations of the SME Server Inc. These operations include, but are not limited to, collection of donations and/or revenues, collecting mail, setting up merchant accounts, payment of pre-approved expenses (domain renewals, etc.), file required reports and tax statements with the government, and so on.
"Initially issue and / or follow a pre-existing social contract with the SME server community that describes (but is not limited to) 
" The specifics of ownership of the content of the SME server website, core releases and contributions. 
"The relationship of the community to the Corporate Steward and any duties pertaining thereto. 
"The relationship of the Corporate Steward to the community and any duties pertaining thereto.
"The extent to which it will defend and safeguard intellectual and monetary assets of the community 

In recognition of the donation of tangible and intangible services to the SME community, the Corporate Steward shall receive 
"The designation as the primary sponsor of the SME server project.
"The right to name two of the five original members of the Board Of Directors of SME Server Inc.. These members will be the Corporate Steward Liaison and the Treasurer.
"The right to use the community logo and name in their marketing materials on a non-exclusive basis. This does not include the rights to represent as their own any of the content or IP of the SME server or the community. 
"The right to display their logo, name, or other branding material on the community website and on any community marketing materials for SME Server.
These rights will end when Corporate Steward sponsorship is withdrawn. A 120 day notification period before withdrawing Corporate Steward sponsorship will be agreed upon to allow time to develop a transition plan.  At a minimum, this transition plan will provide for the transfer of ownership of the non-profit organization, and the transfer of any assets with it, before the Corporate Steward can withdraw.  Existing SME Server, Inc. personnel (if any) will work with the incoming personnel during and/or after this period to ensure a smooth transition.

Corporate Steward Liaison
This position will be an employee, and act as an agent of, the Corporate Steward organization. This person shall be the contact person that the Business Agent and the Leadership Committee will go to with questions and concerns that relate to the Corporate Steward's duties and responsibilities. The Liaison will make the arrangements for the annual financial audit between the Business Agent and the designee of the Corporate Steward.

Hosting Provider
This is the organization that provides hosting services for the community website. This organization may or may not be the same organization that has the role of Corporate Steward.  The duties of the Hosting Provider include, but are not limited to:
"To provide hosting, and server administrative functions for,  the community website. 
"To provide sufficient bandwidth to accommodate the average number of simultaneous users on the website.
"To allow sufficient access to the server to maintain and extend the community website.
"To work with any parties that wish to provide mirroring and/or site backup services for the community.

Fund Raising / Income Generation
The Administrative Group is responsible for developing and administering any fund raising or revenue producing activities for the community.
The initial fund raising activity will be the setup, and administration of, a voluntary donation program.  This program will consist of merely requesting donations in a modest way on the community website and creating a process to receive said donations.

Other Programs
The Administrative Group is responsible for the development of policies and procedures, and the administration of, any other activities that include the distribution of monetary or tangible rewards.  Said policies and procedures may, and should, depend on the continual input and review of the other groups, but the administration of these programs falls under the Administrative Group.