Hi David, *, Am Montag, 10. Januar 2011, 00:25:41 schrieb David Nelson: > Hi Andreas, :-) > > > There is currently no legal entity or a legal organisation TDF. Every > > thing is in the course of formation. Because I know a bit about German > > law I can assure you that it takes a longer time (not days or a month) > > to establish a foundation. > > Forming the legal entity, the Foundation will take time. But that has > no connection with the implementation of the Community Bylaws. The > existence of the Foundation is *not* necessary before implementing > almost every clause of the Community Bylaws. You can set up the ESC. > You can set up the membership committee. You can hold elections for > the BoD, as a *morally-implemented* team. You can set up the > proportional-representation voting system. You can hold elections and > votes. You can appoint teams. You can appoint team leads. The *moral* > life of the Community can exist and function entirely independently of > whether or not there is yet an officially-formed Foundation under > German or UK law. >
I think this will not improve our current situation. We need a group of people with deep knowledge (from their work with the community of OOo) about the different parts of the whole project and have the power to establish the foundation that serves the needs of the whole community / project. We don't have the time to change the horses during this process. This will lead to a waste of time, because the people of the new (moral) ESC / BoD had to start the discussion about the foundation (and the best way to establish it) from the beginning. And a bit for your health ;-) We - the contributors - are all *morally* currently members of LibreOffice. We don't need a membership commitee yet. Regards, Andreas *and please don't resent every time your statement; we are on a mailinglist with an archive here* -- ## Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows ## http://LibreOffice.org ## Support the Document Foundation (http://documentfoundation.org) ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
