Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association
Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association
- Subject: Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association
- From: Tim Worman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:54:43 -0700
+1
And, it would certainly give devs more cred when we have to stand before someone about our technology choices.
Tim Worman
UCLA GSE&IS
On Sep 19, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
> +1
>
> On Sep 19, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
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>> That is an interesting idea. I can see that it would make Wonder/WO seem much more credible.
>>
>>
>> On 2011-09-19, at 6:24 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
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>>> 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@hidden mailing list (send an email to email@hidden to subscribe).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help!
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