On 5/30/06, Peter Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 18:29, josephhenryblack wrote:
> I nominate Timothy for the chair - he has shown that he has consistently
> promoted OGP interests and he wont need a board - he can get them from
> Traversal. ;-)
> Is there anyone with some experience with dealing with accounts? You
> would be a handy addition to this foundation.
Um... I would suggest that we set up the foundation so there are 5 people on
the board:
- Chairman
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Two others, one of whom _must_ also be on the board of Traversal.
But employees of Traversal may _not_ hold any of the posts of Chairman,
Secretary or Treasurer.
I think this would help make sure of the foundation's independence from
Traversal not only in the eyes of the public, but also in the eyes of the tax
man. ;)
In order to avoid the potential for schism, we should define the OGF
carefully. I want OGF to serve a couple of roles:
1) Handle non-profit financial issues (be trustworthy)
2) Decide on where funds are spent
3) Represent the community TO Traversal
3b) Represent Traversal to the community
4) Collect votes on elections and other community issues.
5) Empower the community in terms of giving them a unified voice wrt
open hardware (note that this committee should consider influencing
more than just Traversal).
6) Act as a central resource for developers (alternate uses for OGD1,
software graphics drivers, etc).
7) Be "business partners" with Traversal.
8) Concern itself with Traversal's dealings with the FOSS community
(but not necessarily anyone else).
Lots of things will be shared between Traversal and OGF. The last
thing we want is something adversarial. In some sense, we're separate
organizations, legally for the non-profit stuff, demonstrating that
Traversal does not want to manage donations (the community should
manage their own), etc. In another sense, we're two sides of the same
coin, because we are formed from the same group of people, and we need
each other to prosper. If I say we're part of the same organization,
people might fear that Traversal is trying to have too much control,
so I'll just say that we're very close friends. :) (My biggest fear
is that OGF will decide that TT is making a bad decision and not be
willing to compromise.)
I think that someone from Traversal should be on the committee (unless
not elected so), but not necessarily in a leadership role. Similarly,
someone from the OGF can be voted onto the Traversal board of
directors.
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