Precisley Yumi.
I don't know any of the posters on this thread. Two have expressd interest in saving a sim.
It is a little like an escrow service. Who can I trust to peform the escrow? In this platform a Linden.
If there is any other person, or even better, a way that the group tools can be adapted, all well and good.
I don't know by individual the people who wish to be involved in land management, I trust that to a vote of people who are sponsoring the sim.
It is not a significant part of my SL life to be involved in sponsorship such as this, neither do I have the time to get to know the people who may want to sponsor part sims, but I have the interest in SL to be able to take a degree of financial responsibility for some of these builds.
Dennie
The trustees are appointed as put earlier in the thread by rotation from a group of trustees, who are interested in maintaining these builds. They are in turn replaced by election, by the eventual sponsors. The idea I have proposed is to enable individual sponsors, such as myself to be involved on a part sim basis. With the safeguards in place to ensure that my donation is protected. That the volunteer time in updating the sims is being protected and that the sims, if they are of significance can easily be identified.
Again the issue of an 'I want to save my sim' is a problem I do not have the answer to, which I clearly professed in my initial posting.
This is not an idea for Lindens to arbitrate, it is a way for sponsors to feel more secure in donating and for volunteers to feel their voluntary work is not going to let the sim owners get a spanking new upto date build and then sell it off to the highest bidder.
The major flaws I see are
1. Linden involvement, which is controversial in some eyes.
2. The sim owner taking the mick out of the process.
The aspect of what if someone wants to stop contributing. is part of the reason why the owner of the group who is not a sponsor and has no involvement with the sponsors or curators(trustees) is the only one who can sell the land. Part of their responsibility is to ensure the sponsors and trustees are aware of a sponsor leaving and that those involved can get onto managing a transition and new tier holdings before the sim goes under. If no additional sponsor found, yes it fails. That is the nature of all such programmes in RL. Once a sponsor backs away, then the sim either fails or a new sponsor group is found. That is a perennial risk.