Hi, 2011/6/6 Florian Effenberger <[email protected]>: > Tom Davies wrote on 2011-06-06 11.22: >> >> I think 100 is still quite small compared to the numbers of people >> actually >> involved. So the list of members is still more like a special-interest >> sub-set. The founder members are doing a great job and i hope that they >> stay in >> place for a long while yet. > > thanks for the flowers, as we say in Germany. :-) > > Well, there are two things: > The steering committee has to end its existence one year after being set in > place, which would be, depending on how that needs to be counted, either end > of August, or September 28th. > > In addition, to set up the Foundation in Germany, we need to provide the > names of the legal representatives. As we hope to have the legal paperwork > finished soon, we also need those names. So, maybe waiting one or two more > weeks is possible, but given that we have been accepting members for a few > weeks already, I guess the time that is right will come soon ;) > I'd like to add that not every contributor wants to be a member of the foundation. Especially those who are payed for the work might not like to have a too personal connection.
We can ask the membership committee if there is a reasonable number of applications left which can be finished in the next days. Else we should go ahead for the reasons given by Florian. Volker -- Volker Merschmann Member of The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
