Excuse my ignorance, but why do we need the legal organization, why to not simply do the GiHub part?
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:36 AM, G. Kay Lee < balancetraveller+es-disc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Allen, thanks for extending your support :-D > > My observation as well as belief is that, if a community effort has turned > out to be successful, than volunteers will flock together and the movement > / organization will be able to self-sustain for quite long enough. So the > issue has always been how to make sure a community effort is on the right > track toward success from the get-go. > > For this specific effort, at this specific stage, I think what we need > right now is to add more credibility to this whole endeavor (since I'm not > a familiar, high-profile figure), so I'm going to spend some time doing > research to put forward a more concrete plain written down in plain text, > and just go ahead with it. I believe with each progress we'll eventually > attract more interested parties and once we garner enough attention and > participation, we'll solve the "not-enough-time" problem. Hopefully. We'll > see ;-) > > Again, very glad to receive your support. Will keep you posted whenever > there's some new progress. > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> > wrote: > >> I think this is a very interesting idea. TC39 has put a lot of effort >> into community transparency over the last decade but Ecma International >> (really most international standards organization) is organizationally not >> structured or naturally inclined to directly accept “contributions” from >> individual. Changing this within Ecma has been and will continue to be a >> slow and sometimes frustrating process. The idea of a NFP joining Ecma as >> a community surrogate is an interacting way to approach the problem. I >> think it could work. >> >> However, while the idea is simple enough the actual process of building >> and sustaining such a NFP is not so simple. Kevin Smith has already raised >> some very valid cautions about this. In particular, his cautions about the >> amount personal time required of you (or any other individuals sharing >> leadership respondability of the NFP) should not be ignored. >> >> But, I think this really could be a viable solution if you and other >> organizers of the NFP are sufficiently motivated and committed. >> >> I’d happy to act as an adviser as you try to get this organizers. >> >> Allen >> >> PS, you might find this provides some useful background on TC39 >> participation: >> http://wirfs-brock.com/allen/files/papers/standpats-asianplop2016.pdf >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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