Hello Tom!
If you are looking at the four Owners listed in the top of the home page
you are confusing the Tigris infrastructure settings with the project
governance. I am not surprised but between me and the other Owners,
there is no confusion. Do I have to remove the other three Project
Owners from their role to make this clear? I would have preferred to
remove the whole Tigris-added box but I don't know how it is done.
If we are going to change the governance structure in any way, then I
would like to see someone describing a new governance structure claiming
that it is an improvement and describing why or at least make a concrete
suggestion. Then a discussion would be possible.
There are two reasons why we don't deposit the donations in the project
leader's bank account. Firstly, the tax reasons. The Google funds would
count as income tax and automatically 55% would be eaten up by taxes.
Secondly, the project leader doesn't want to spend time on filling out
tax forms and writing checks. He prefers to let someone else take care
of that.
/Linus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: den 28 september 2006 20:34
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [argouml-dev] FW: ArgoUML: invitation to join Conservancy
>
> Linus said:
>
> > About the governance structure I didn't see any need to make
> > changes for this purpose either. That means a single supreme
> > leader as it is documented in the "About box" and on the
> > Project ArgoUML Members with Responsibilities page.
>
> As opposed to the top of the home page where there are four owners
listed
> (including one who works for a competitor).
>
> I had hoped that part of this formalization process would be cleaning
up
> some of the the historical ownership issues and formalizing the
governance
> with a charter and process that everyone bought into. Admittedly the
> project is on the small side for any great degree of formality, but if
> things are going to be controlled unilaterally, why even go to the
trouble
> of signing up with the Conservancy? We could just have the Google
funds
> and
> other donations deposited in the project leader's bank account and
> dispersed
> from there.
>
> Tom
>
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