Le 2011-09-20 à 10:16, Paul Yu a écrit : > May be this is a two step process. > > Operationally, Pascal needs a non-profit right now for WOWODC 2012, etc. and > having a non-profit without a bigger licensing issues to deal with would be > good.
If we really want to move Wonder to Apache (and WOLips to the Eclipse Foundation?) in mid term, I don't think we should waste time creating the non-profit just for one year. But yeah, asking every contributor to clear out legal issues will probably be a pain. > Once the organization is up, then it can work to move the code to apache... > > Paul > On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:14 AM, John Huss wrote: > >> +1 for Apache. >> >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> 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/johnthuss%40gmail.com >> >> 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/pyu%40mac.com >> >> 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/probert%40macti.ca > > This email sent to [email protected]
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