I was trying to find a statement on the association objectives. Here is a crazy idea - maybe instead of starting a new non-profit, the community should consider taking the open source parts of the WO code and join the Apache Software Foundation. The benefits are the following:
* WOCommunity will become a top level project (TLP) under one of the most recognized open source brands, exposing it to many more eyes compared to now. * Apache has advanced and time-proven governing process that already works. No legal expense or effort is required. * Apache is the best place out there for community building, code legal clearance and preservation of software projects under the ASL 2.0. * Somebody will watch your infrastructure for you. * You can organize your own conference and unconference events together with the Apache Conference Committee, or present yourself during bigger Apache events like ApacheCon. * You'll have a chance to hang out with some pretty serious geeks (not sure if that's a benefit ;)). But of course if you go this way, you'll have to become Apache and work on achieving consensus with a much larger group of people on issues that go beyond the code. And of course you may have different objectives than the ones that I cited (community building, code legal clearance and preservation). But give it a thought. Considering that WO core is not open source, this will be creating an interesting precedent, so I called it crazy above, but I think it is certainly doable. Cheers, Andrus On Sep 19, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: > Good morning everyone, > > As you may know, we want to register the association as a non-profit > organization in Canada. Since this is the first time I'm doing this, I would > like input from you for the by-laws. You can find a draft in the wiki: > > > http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOCOM/Organization+Incorporation > > If you have comments to make about them, please add them in the wiki, or post > to the [email protected] mailing list (send an email to > [email protected] to subscribe). > > Thanks for your help! _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
