Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-13 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, Following our confcall of Saturday, I would first like to express my apologies for my message on the status of our community bylaws. At the moment our community bylaws are *almost* good. Some people here and elsewhere have expressed a strong opinion on the clause on racism and

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-09 Thread Italo Vignoli
A few comments about the last comments: 1st: Yes, the negatives (racism, xenophobia, sexism and religious or political intolerance) are covered by the positives, if we were driven by common sense, but unfortunately this is not always the case, and I feel that we should maintain the sentence

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Thanks to everyone for their work! Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2010-12-06 17.20: Well spoken. And with that, I declare the Community Bylaws adopted (provided nobody from the SC punches me in the face right away)... -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-01 Thread Olivier Hallot
Hi Some thoughts and questions from my personal experience: 1) I am a bit concerned of the definition of project: It looks like TDF will foster several software projects, which is fine for me, but then (may be I am a bit biased by OOo structure), how do we manage NLC, L10n, Marketing and

Re: [steering-discuss] Updated draft of the Community Bylaws

2010-12-01 Thread David Nelson
Hi Charles, SC guys :-) On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 01:23, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: David, as usual, please feel free to review the language... thanks! -- Charles-H. Schulz 1) Would it perhaps be useful to add a definition for the term community under