BTW as with the Don's original message about incorporating, I distributed this widely to increase awareness, but please restrict any feedback to haskell-cafe@ and committee@.
Sorry for the noise! Ganesh On 16/12/2011 09:08, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: > Hi, > > As mentioned in the committee's annual report > (http://haskellorg.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/first-year-report/), our > attempt to join SFC has stalled because they don't have the capacity to > accept new projects at the moment. > > We therefore applied to join SPI (http://www.spi-inc.org/), and they > have now offered us "associated project" status > (http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/associated-project-howto/). > > We intend to accept this offer, but are taking this final opportunity to > seek feedback from the community before doing so. > > SPI is very like SFC in what it does and how it operates, so we don't > expect this to make any substantial differences to the FAQ quoted below. > > Regards, > > Ganesh > on behalf of the haskell.org committee > > On 10/05/2011 23:44, Don Stewart wrote: >> Hello everyone. >> >> The haskell.org committee[1], in the interest of the long-term stability >> of the open source Haskell community infrastructure, has decided to >> incorporate haskell.org as a legal entity. This email outlines our >> recommendation, and seeks input from the community on this decision. >> >> The committee's proposal is that haskell.org incorporate as an entity >> under the Software Freedom Conservancy umbrella organization (the same group >> that Darcs joined recently): >> >> http://sfconservancy.org/ >> >> If we proceed with this move, haskell.org will be a legal entity, and >> registered as a non-profit, allowing us to more directly accept >> (US tax-deductible) donations, and to invest in assets that benefit the >> Haskell open source community. >> >> We welcome your feedback on the proposal attached below. >> >> -- Don Stewart (on behalf of the Haskell.org committee) >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> = A proposal for the incorporation of Haskell.org = >> >> In recent years, haskell.org has started to receive assets, e.g. money from >> Google Summer Of Code, donations for Hackathons, and a Sparc machine for use >> in >> GHC development. We have also started spending this money: in particular, on >> hosting haskell.org itself. There is also interest in running fundraising >> drives for specific things such as Hackathon sponsorship and hosting fees. >> >> However, haskell.org doesn't currently exist as a legal entity, meaning that >> these assets have had to be held on our behalf by other entities, such as >> Galois and various universities. This leads to tricky situations, with no-one >> being sure who should decide how the haskell.org assets can be used. >> >> To solve these problems, we propose that haskell.org applies to become a >> member >> project of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) >> <http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/>. The SFC is a non-profit >> organization >> that provides free financial and administrative services to open source >> projects. Additionally, it has 501(c)(3) status, meaning donations from the >> US >> are tax-deductible. The SFC would hold haskell.org's money and other assets, >> and would be able to accept donations on behalf of haskell.org. >> >> The haskell.org committee, as described here [2], will make decisions on >> spending assets and other decisions related to governing the non-profit. >> >> >> Before proceeding, we are inviting input from the community in the form >> of specific objections or queries regarding the plan. >> >> We've tried to answer some of the most likely questions: >> >> Q: Does this mean that my Haskell project must now be covered by a >> copyleft licence such as GPL? >> A: No, but Haskell projects using haskell.org resource should use an >> Open Source licence >> <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical>. >> >> Q: Will it still be possible to use community.h.o to host >> non-open-source material, such as academic papers? >> A: An overall minority of such content, as is the current situation, is >> not a problem. >> >> Q: Will it still be possible to have job ads on the haskell.org mailing >> lists and website? >> A: Yes. >> >> Q: Will this affect our ability to host the Haskell Symposium >> <http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/> and Industrial Haskell >> Group<http://industry.haskell.org/> webpages within haskell.org? >> A: No. >> >> Q: What will be the relationship between haskell.org and other >> organizations such as the Haskell Symposium and Industrial Haskell >> Group? >> A: Those organisations will continue to exist as separate entities. >> >> Q: If an umbrella non-profit organisation "The Haskell Foundation" was >> created, would haskell.org be able to join it? >> A: Yes. It's likely that in such a scenario, the Haskell Foundation >> would become the owner of the haskell.org domain name, with the cost >> divided between the members. The entity that is part of the SFC would >> be renamed "community.haskell.org" in order to avoid confusion. >> >> [1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell.org_committee >> [2]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell.org_committee#Operation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell mailing list >> Haskell@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > Haskell@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell