| 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.
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@hidden> 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@hidden mailing list (send an email to email@hidden to subscribe).
>
> Thanks for your help!
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