I'm feeling a bit sad about Axanar's apparent outreach to colleges. Axanar has shown no ability to run a for profit business, and seems to reject the very basic nature of what nonprofit operations actually are, much less know how to implement them...
So how crushed under the wheels are any college programs going to be when they commit their students to this profoundly poorly managed operation? And no that's not badmouthing.
The most basic aspects of actual nonprofit operation are easily accessible, and have also been discussed here and places like Axamonitor... and yet Axanar shows no evidence after *years* that it has any grasp of what it actually has to do in this regard. And it still calls itself nonprofit when it hasn't been approved as such.
The most basic tax and budget management as well as personnel management strategies have seemed to elude Axanar Productions as well, as evidenced by professionals fleeing in droves, the budget wiped out, admissions that the taxes may have been poorly managed, and being sued right out of the gate.
Just taking a step back and looking at this as a college administrator, would you let your profs integrate this operation into your curriculum offerings?
It seems highly likely to me that most public education institutions would have some sort of 3d party vendor vetting process for financial integrity/depth of resource/skills of bench. And since its a public institution with special responsibility to uphold standards as an example to the students, they might have additional ethical conduct safeguards in place to avoid getting entangled in unseemly situations, like vendors who have a record of failing to abide by any laws or standard labor practices, or who have been sued and had to concede misconduct in a settlement, or who cannot certify they abide by EEOC rules etc.
Axanar might find itself in an awkward position when their hot-to-go professors come back with that sheaf of standard vetting questionnaires.
And finally, just imagine the amount of stink you could be in as a college administrator when your student activist committees and activist-sympathetic professors in business and law and media departments find out that you are trying to obtain benefit from an operation that arguably may have made off with a couple million of crowdsourced funds to build a business off of unlicensed IP, and never delivered on its donation proposal.
Imagine how much stink *Axanar* will be in. In public, in classroom debates that glom onto the fascinating unresolved issue of legal protections in the crowdfunding domain.
Now *that* will be popcorn time.
So how crushed under the wheels are any college programs going to be when they commit their students to this profoundly poorly managed operation? And no that's not badmouthing.
The most basic aspects of actual nonprofit operation are easily accessible, and have also been discussed here and places like Axamonitor... and yet Axanar shows no evidence after *years* that it has any grasp of what it actually has to do in this regard. And it still calls itself nonprofit when it hasn't been approved as such.
The most basic tax and budget management as well as personnel management strategies have seemed to elude Axanar Productions as well, as evidenced by professionals fleeing in droves, the budget wiped out, admissions that the taxes may have been poorly managed, and being sued right out of the gate.
Just taking a step back and looking at this as a college administrator, would you let your profs integrate this operation into your curriculum offerings?
It seems highly likely to me that most public education institutions would have some sort of 3d party vendor vetting process for financial integrity/depth of resource/skills of bench. And since its a public institution with special responsibility to uphold standards as an example to the students, they might have additional ethical conduct safeguards in place to avoid getting entangled in unseemly situations, like vendors who have a record of failing to abide by any laws or standard labor practices, or who have been sued and had to concede misconduct in a settlement, or who cannot certify they abide by EEOC rules etc.
Axanar might find itself in an awkward position when their hot-to-go professors come back with that sheaf of standard vetting questionnaires.
And finally, just imagine the amount of stink you could be in as a college administrator when your student activist committees and activist-sympathetic professors in business and law and media departments find out that you are trying to obtain benefit from an operation that arguably may have made off with a couple million of crowdsourced funds to build a business off of unlicensed IP, and never delivered on its donation proposal.
Imagine how much stink *Axanar* will be in. In public, in classroom debates that glom onto the fascinating unresolved issue of legal protections in the crowdfunding domain.
Now *that* will be popcorn time.
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