On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Donald Whytock <[email protected]> wrote: > My two centimes... > > It sounds like what Martin is asking for is a mechanism whereby a > sponsoring corporation or collection of corporations can take the > corporate view and "throw money at the problem" to get things done. > > It occurs to me that this doesn't have to exist within the framework > of the ASF. Since anyone can be a contributor, said anyone could be > in the employ of an external nonprof, so a nonprof could accept money > for the purposes of hiring people to subscribe to ooo-dev and have at > it. > > This seems like something that the ASF and PMC not only don't need to > do anything about, but in fact can't do anything about.
Largely agree, with one potential caveat, and that has to do with trademarks: http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ Beyond the general terms expressed in the above page, any issues should be worked on a case-by-case basis. One further comment below... > Don > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:51 PM, eric b <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> Le 16 juin 11 à 18:39, Martin Hollmichel a écrit : >> >>> Hi Sam, >>>> >>>> Do you have a concrete proposal? >>> >>> yes, I have. >>> >>> First, I do not have any problems with the Apache style of decision >>> making, lazy consensus sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I like that >>> style. This fits perfectly to the "meritocracy" principle. >>> >> >> [...cut...] >> >> >>> I think this principle may get enhanced by enabling a non profit >>> organization to have their own resources on a project (This might fit >>> into the Apache philosophy considering this organization as an >>> contributing institution). The ASF does not have a concept of a contributing institution. We recognize individuals only, and those individuals retain their status independent of their association with other institutions. >> For the record, EducOOo ( http://www.educoo.org) is a non profit >> organization, OpenOffice.org dedicated : only based on donations, and >> partnerships. We can accept donations from a lot of countries, since based >> in Europa and so on. Currently, we only try to sale goodies, and to help >> people attending events, but sure, better can be expected. >> >> There is some missing english and other locale translation on our site, but >> you can count EducOOo in the list. >> >> Last but not least, we already created educoo.it ( http://www.educoo.it ), >> educoo.es (http://educoo.es ), educoo.no (http://educoo.no ) + some others. >> >> Regards, >> Eric >> >> -- >> qɔᴉɹə >> Education Project: >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project >> Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page >> L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org >> Blog : http://eric.bachard.org/news - Sam Ruby
