On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:39:29 +0200, Gianluca Turconi <[email protected]> wrote: > I see: The Document Foundation (members: Charles-H. Schulz, Google, > whoever-you-want) with its steering committee/council; > > While it seem you and others see: The Document Foundation + Google + > Whoever-you-want that collaborate with each other and have a common > council for the most important decisions.
There is no reason why there could not be a proper foundation that acts as custodian for e.g. technical infrastructure, and holds eventual trademarks and decides on licensing policies for these etc. and a wider council that is composed of all contributors. Again, compare with the OpenStreetMap foundation (http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/OSMF:About) with about 250 members (that makes the eligable to elect the steering committee for example), yet the recent relicensing campaign is decided by all x-thousand contributors. There is no reason why decisions like "which GUI to adopt" etc cannot be voted on by a wider community (which is organized and blessed by the TDF). I am not sure we want to have open-for-all polls on things like "we should discard mono", they are too prone to slashdot-initiated rigging and allows the non-contributing majority to make decisions they don't have to implement. After all the term "meritocracy" appears pretty often in relation with the TDF ... But as I am no lawyer and don't plan to implement governance things, I am going to shut up now :). Sebastian -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
