[committee] Membership 2008

[Scott Young]

> Namespace issues - if we fuck up paypal at ucc it's gone for good,
> paypal-year can be thrown away.

IIRC, it's easy to delete a PayPal account (there's a "close this
account" option somewhere), and I'm pretty sure it's possible to
re-open an account with the same email address as before, so I don't
really think this is an issue. I'm pretty sure I did this a few months
ago with my personal account. Obviously, it might be a good idea to
check first, though.

> Changing signatories on a real account is a PITA especially if the
> previous ones aren't available for whatever reason, whereas the guild will
> change them just by filing a form after the AGM.

This is just side-stepping the issue, really, but the way I'd
envisaged it, we'd be getting one of those high-interest,
low-or-zero-fee online-only savings accounts. That'd allow us to
accept bank transfers online, and access could be negotiated just by
changing the account password. Of course, /technically/ we'd still
need to change signatories, but it wouldn't be such a big deal if
access was online-only anyway.

Of course, if opening a bank account would risk losing grants from the
Guild, and so on, then I guess it's not even worth discussing. I might
have a look through the Guild website and see if I can find anything
supporting this.