Re: SFC, GNOME Foundation (WAS Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011)
Hi all, Thanks for the feedback and I apologize for not responding sooner. We are currently looking into possible solutions - personally, I agree with Dave and Stormy's comments that GNOME should offer these services. We are looking into what the legal liability protection requirements are. Bradley has been great in sharing information of the services the SFC provides and how much work goes into them. In evaluating handling money for projects within GNOME, one concern is the number of projects that might be interested in doing this as the accounting work is time intensive. Stormy said above: The money issue is probably a tracking issue more than anything else. We could mange that by limiting the number of projects. We could put criteria around what it means to be a project to ensure that it's a long lasting and well managed entity before we agreed to handle its finances. I know the SFC has a process for that. That part is a bit tricky as we want to be fair to all projects and, if we go in this direction, we need to make sure we have criteria in place to manage that. Paul On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, vas...@softwarefreedom.org wrote: Bradley Kuhn can probably speak to this better than I can, but I want to note that to do the Conservancy right is a lot of work, depending on how active your member projects are. If GNOME decides to go down this path, I highly recommend you take Bradley out to dinner (he can be bribed with burritos) and get a feel for the scope of this endeavor. For another look at how this can be approached, you might also talk to Software in the Public Interest. I don't think either SFC or SPI will be stingy with information. Best Regards, James ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: SFC, GNOME Foundation (WAS Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011)
Bradley Kuhn can probably speak to this better than I can, but I want to note that to do the Conservancy right is a lot of work, depending on how active your member projects are. If GNOME decides to go down this path, I highly recommend you take Bradley out to dinner (he can be bribed with burritos) and get a feel for the scope of this endeavor. For another look at how this can be approached, you might also talk to Software in the Public Interest. I don't think either SFC or SPI will be stingy with information. Best Regards, James ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: SFC, GNOME Foundation (WAS Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011)
Le vendredi 18 février 2011, à 10:24 -0700, Stormy Peters a écrit : I think we should be willing to do for GNOME projects what the SFC does for their projects. Big +1. That's one of the goals of the Foundation, imho; and as Stormy points out, we already do that for some projects. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: SFC, GNOME Foundation (WAS Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011)
Hi, Vincent Untz wrote: Le vendredi 18 février 2011, à 10:24 -0700, Stormy Peters a écrit : I think we should be willing to do for GNOME projects what the SFC does for their projects. Big +1. That's one of the goals of the Foundation, imho; and as Stormy points out, we already do that for some projects. ...including some projects which are not GNOME projects, like GIMP the Libre Graphics Meeting. I concur with the very wise Stormy Vincent. The foundation should be providing services like this to our projects. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
