Was interesting to hear about the Outreachy announcement at FOSDEM are looking forward to learn the details.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@ebb.org> wrote: > [ I want to be clear that I'm here primarily as an individual member of > the GNOME Foundation. However, this particular post is primarily on > behalf on Conservancy -- since Oliver called out Conservancy > explicitly as a possible home for OPW. I'm the President, on the > Board of Directors, and an employee of Conservancy. ] > > Oliver Propst wrote at 05:58 (EDT): >> I know an organization [1] that have administrative and legal >> expertise, maybe they would be interested in govern the program? >> >> 1 https://sfconservancy.org/overview/ > > Conservancy would of course welcome an application by OPW to join > Conservancy, and Oliver is correct that Conservancy's primary daily > activities are handling the types of administrative tasks that GF has > struggled to handle for OPW. > > OPW is somewhat different from our usual member project, which are > primarily Free Software projects themselves. However, Conservancy has > established in the past some projects that are primarily services to > advance and/or protect the adoption of Free Software. Thus, an OPW > application to Conservancy is not unprecedented. Conservancy's > evaluation committee would need to consider OPW as an applicant to > Conservancy and decide. (Conservancy's eval committee meets monthly.) > > However, one useful component of any application from a project with an > existing affiliation to a Free Software 501(c)(3) non-profit is a > definitive statement from the governing body of that non-profit (in this > case, likely, from GF's Board) which indicates the existing org has no > objection to the application. Particularly in this case, Conservancy > has an excellent relationship with GF; thus, Conservancy would certainly > seek a joint decision for a relocation of OPW to Conservancy. > > If this change is really something GF wants to pursue and Conservancy > can make an impact here helping OPW flourish, I'm prepared personally to > prioritize such a transition to make sure it's smooth and easy. > > Máirín Duffy wrote at 12:55 (EDT) on Wednesday: >> > Red Hat and the Software Freedom Conservancy are funding Marina and >> > Karen's time spent on administering it respectively > > Regardless of anything that happens about the issue raised above, > Conservancy remains very supportive of OPW. Conservancy's employment > policy in fact allows use of some resources to do some volunteer work > for other charities. I use that to do volunteer work for the FSF > myself, and Karen has done so to help OPW and GF, so I don't expect > Karen will cease involvement with OPW in any event. (IIUC, Karen also > volunteers further on nights/weekends for OPW and GF as well.) > > Finally, I personally remain very supportive of OPW. I've been urging > existing Conservancy member projects for years to participate more in > OPW. Sadly, I haven't been as successful as I'd like, but both Karen > and I actively have been working on that since she came to work at > Conservancy, and hopefully we'll see more Conservancy member projects > sponsoring OPW slots in the future! > -- > Bradley M. Kuhn > President & Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- -mvh Oliver Propst _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
