This is a great idea. But before, I think we need to figure out who "owns" Wonder and WOLips...
> 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/probert%40macti.ca > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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]
