Thank you Bradley. You know this, but I’ll share with everyone that Conservancy was my personal choice for a foundation home. I encourage any truly open source project in need of a foundation home to consider Conservancy. I really appreciate Bradley's welcome, especially if LF turns out to not be a good fit for us. That said, the success of the FOSSology project is not up to the foundation home. It’s up to us, the developers and users. With the resources that Siemens is putting into FOSSology you can expect more great things to come (shared in my original email on our developer list). But remember that FOSSology isn’t a Siemens project, or an HP project, it is your project. We all work together to make a product for the benefit of all. You care about FOSSology or you wouldn’t be reading this. Do you want to help make it better meet your needs and the needs of others? Then:
1) Talk to us. Tell us what you like and what you don’t. Tell us what we can do to help make you more productive or the project better in any way. 2) File issues. Find something broken? File an issue, send email, do something. Don’t just put up with it. 3) Contribute. There are many ways to contribute to FOSSology. See 1 and 2 above. If you're interested in features that don’t seem to be getting any traction, you’ll have to either contribute code or get other developers excited about what you need. Did you find an error in our documentation or code? Then you can fix it. What, you don’t have the confidence that your fix is correct, then submit it as a pull request. Don’t know how to do that? Then talk to us (see 1). Don’t have the time to contribute code, documentation fixes, testing, etc? Then donate to the Linux Foundation for the FOSSology project. No money, little time? Then go back to 1 and 2 above. It’s easy. Thanks, Bob Gobeille FOSSology project leader > On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@sfconservancy.org> wrote: > > Bob wrote earlier today: >> The Linux Foundation [LF] board has approved accepting the FOSSology >> project. I am just waiting on my employer (Hewlett Packard) to >> confirm that we are good .... That said, Siemens is now the largest >> contributor to FOSSology ... I need to make sure Oliver/Michael is ok >> with that. > > While I certainly think that the LF could be a good home for FOSSology, > I thought it important to mention that Software Freedom Conservancy ( > https://sfconservancy.org ) has also previously offered itself as a > potential home for FOSSology. > >> I expect HP to drop all support for fossology after Oct 31, 2015 > > In particular, given that HP, per Bob's email, is likely to drop support > for FOSSology in less than a year, it's a good time for the FOSSology > community to consider where the best non-profit home is for the project, > since HP will no longer be its home. > > As many of you know, Conservancy uses FOSSology weekly and has been in > regular touch with the community for more than five years. Conservancy > very much wants FOSSology to thrive, as we find FOSSology extremely > valuable and use it regularly in our work [0]. Perhaps a non-profit > home that regularly uses FOSSology might make sense. > > Furthermore, you may also know that I specifically encouraged Matt > Germonprez at UNO to get his students involved with FOSSology, and I > helped his students do so during my campus visit there. Thus, while > Conservancy hasn't directly contributed to FOSSology's codebase > (frankly, we find it pretty darn good already and are quite happy > users), we've already for years been actively encouraging collaboration > with and contribution to FOSSology. > > Ultimately, the choice of a fiscal sponsor should reflect the needs of > the project. LF's a better choice if your needs are conference > organizing and marketing. But if FOSSology's focus is more along these > lines: https://sfconservancy.org/members/services/ , then I hope > FOSSology's community will consider Conservancy as a potential home. > > The main reason I'm posting, though, is: at a time of transition for > FOSSology, I want your community to know that you have multiple > non-profit options for your next phase -- all with very different > service plans and types. Conservancy would be delighted to help you > sort through the options, *even if* it's to help you evaluate your > options and ultimately pick something other than Conservancy. As you > know, Conservancy's staff has (collectively) at least 30 years of > experience in non-profit FOSS project management. We've always found > that organizing a project into a non-profit home produces great results > for a project, so we'd love to make it happen. > > Feel free to contact me, publicly or privately, if you'd like to discuss > this further. Whatever you decide to do, we at Conservancy really look > forward to FOSSology getting even better in the years to come. > > [0] A great example: FOSSology was a huge help recently to Conservancy > when we were helping our Kallithea project ( > http://kallithea-scm.org/ ) bring in code from other projects > properly with proper license attribution, etc. > -- > Bradley M. Kuhn > President & Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy > _______________________________________________ > fossology mailing list > fossology@lists.fossology.org > http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list fossology@lists.fossology.org http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
