Policy Framework
Fantastic Queensland is an Incorporated Society with specific responsibilities. These responsibilities include:
- Our commitment to serve our target audience; individuals who produce, engage with, and enjoy speculative fiction across multiple formats.
- The requirement to conduct ourselves with fairness and integrity in all our dealings.
- The duty to acknowledge and collaborate with the sponsors whose support makes our work possible.
- An awareness of our constraints, as we operate as a volunteer-driven organisation whose members maintain additional responsibilities outside our group.
- The regulatory requirements associated with being an established organisation.
These principles guide our adoption of the Policy Framework outlined below. Members are welcome to propose policy changes through dialogue and consultation at our scheduled meetings, though we maintain that unanimous agreement is necessary for establishing new policies.
1) Every project must have a champion on the FQ committee prepared to offer guidance and evaluation. Without a champion, the project cannot proceed.
2) Every project must include a financial plan and completion date, ensuring we avoid indefinite commitments or projects exceeding our capacity to fund them adequately.
3) Every project must align with FQ's core objectives.
4) Funds expended by FQ support assets or initiatives held in trust by FQ for the spec fic community and sponsors. FQ cannot distribute its assets to individual members or external organisations.
5) FQ must maintain impartiality when procuring goods or services from external vendors, and must continually pursue optimal value relative to available resources.
6) Initiatives supporting author development through skill advancement, practical experience, earning potential, and professional credentials are prioritised, as they represent meaningful progress in establishing sustainable employment within the industry.
7) Fundraising proves most effective when the appeal links contributions to targeted initiatives.
8) We aim for the Australian spec fic community to regard us as a welcoming and representative body that champions all Australian spec fic contributors and audiences wherever feasible.
9) We cannot permit external organisations to adopt the FQ name or standing, or to incur obligations in our behalf, without maintaining direct oversight of their conduct. We are happy to endorse promising initiatives through recognition and encouragement, however financial backing or FQ investment demands more rigorous scrutiny.
10) We cannot make commitments beyond what we can deliver
11) We cannot place excessive demands on our committee members. The committee's primary responsibility centres on governance and resource allocation.
12) We must safeguard the legal and intellectual property interests of creators, particularly those connected to FQ and spec fic, because doing so protects the commercial sustainability of the field we are helping to strengthen.
