On 10/29/11 00:24, Sandro Santilli wrote: > Given OpenMediaNow can't act anymore as a sponsor I think it would > be helpful to have access to the FSF donations.
Correct, Open Media Now is 100% shut down. As a note, the IRS is declining all non-profits that want to do free software projects. They consider these as commercial businesses in disguise. So if we couldn't make it as a non-profit, I saw zero reason to attempt to do this as a for-profit business, since nobody wants to be "told what to do"... > So, what would you think about defining such committee ? Who would like > to be part of it ? An example document describing purpose and proceeding > methods of a "Project Steering Committee" can be found here: > > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/RFC/RFC-1 > > Personally, I think such a committee, with well defined decision making > process rules, would not only help dealing with the FSF but also make it > easier to take decisions. As I mentioned before, you seem to want to apply this offer for fund raising to establishing some kind of control over other facets of the Gnash project. This is why I turned down the FSF on their offer, as it would just lead to more infighting and flame wars as we'd fight over allocating money. I'm personally a big believer in the benevolent dictator model of project management, *not* the committee idea. There really isn't much to "manage" these days anyway, Gnash is more in maintainance mode, than active development. - rob - _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list Gnash-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
