Hi all, Following a meeting in Paris concerning the associations around The Document Foundation and/or LibreOffice, I would like to work on a draft examining the different ways the associations will interact.
We have determined three types of association currently existing : 1) Rare and particular case dedicated to a development or a one-time activity, it has no representation role before TDF or LibreOffice but interacts and serves the Foundation purpose. Example: The Document Machinery which is a NGO under the French law 1901 dedicated to a particular development. 2) Enterprise or business association (and we are clearly speaking of associations) which is a more common type than the 1st one. On a case by case meaning, specific representation could be granted concerning TDF. In the same way, particular relationship could be defined with The Document Foundation. There is so many types and so many different laws that can be taken into account here that it would be very difficult imho to draw a common set of rules for this type of relationship, we could however define a checklist or a template that would help to write the rules. But clearly, the background laying idea is if the TDF name is involved for raising money, there should be some fair way for the Foundation to benefit from it. 3) The classical NGOs supporting local communities and activities. They have no direct representation of TDF (except for FroDev for historical reason at the moment, but that will be different once the Foundation is official). Most of the time they need an official recognition or an endorsement of their activities by TDF. They need also clear guidelines of what they are able to do and how they interact with the Foundation or another particular case like 1 or 2 above, or also a particular product (LibreOffice for the moment, but that can be LOOL, etc.). Do you see other kind of associations existing or that could exist? What do you see that could miss in the description of our interaction with this 3 types of association? Who would like to work with me on drawing the guidelines for the 3rd type in a first time, then on the 2nd type. Kind regards Sophie -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted