Am 05.06.2011 17:55, schrieb Bernie Innocenti: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 15:19 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: >>> It's a prototype idea, not yet discussed anywhere yet. I'd like to know >>> what the board members would think about asking a yearly fee from >>> members and, in case there's interest, how it could be implemented. >>> >>> I've done some research on how other foundations and free software >>> projects like us handle memberships, but I've not yet made my mind on >>> what works best. >> >> Interesting stuff! Looking forward to reading the SLOBs meeting log to >> see what everyone else thinks about this idea:-) > > You're also welcome to join the meeting and propose your ideas on > membership and fundrising!
Okay, will do so on the appropriate thread:-) >> However the licensing issue I had meant to inquire about (though I did >> not at all make that clear in my previous message, mea culpa) is the one >> about GPL v2 vs. v3. >> >> In the May 13 Sugar-Digest Walter wrote "At the most recent Sugar >> oversight-board meeting, we agreed to use a >> referendum to take the pulse of the community (See >> http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-05-08). >> Details to follow." so I had assumed that this topic would continue to >> be discussed by the SLOBs. > > At the last board meeting, Luke Faraone was mentioned as someone who > could run the GPLv3 referendum, but he's been too busy with other > things. We could also ask someone else, but there's no urgency and Luke > has previous experience setting up an election on Selectricity. Thanks for the update, good to know! Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
