On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:53:46 -0400
"Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I must have missed that. What responsibility?
>
> Of managing someone else's money that I didn't earn by selling them a product.
Ah.. ok. I wasn't talking about just accepting donations,
but found raising for a specific task. I know exactly what
troubles can arise from an OSS project having money :(
> Hopefully, well just be able to sell a few boards without a vendor ID
> so we can turn around and use that money to get the vendor ID, at
> which point, the user can decide to use that ID or not with the
> downloadable PCI controller.
Ok, where is the registration page for in advance ordering? :)
> > > but I don't want anyone
> > > to think I have the opportunity. OHF needs to get going just so they
> > > can handle these moneys properly.
> >
> > Yes. What needs to be done there? Where can we help?
> > (I have no clue, as i've never been a member of such a
> > foundation, even less in one who is rooted in the US)
>
> For some time now, we've been trying to motivate enough people to get
> together and form the OHF. What you can do is either help reach that
> critical mass of people and/or enthusiasm or take a leadership role.
> (Although you personally are probably busy enough managing the list
> and other things that you have helped with.)
That doesn't take too much time actualy. But I'm currently
doing a lot of different things and i don't know how much
time i can invest. So i'd rather stay a bit on the side lines
than taking up some work that i cannot finish.
Though you can count me in the bunch who'd join OHF.
> I've started to see open source development as generally much more
> cathedral than bazaar. Successful projects typically have one
> central, charismatic leader whom everyone else listens to. Bit
> Torrent has Cohen. Linux has Torvalds. Apple has Jobs.
Actually it's neither nor. OSS development is neither a bazaar
nor a cathedral. It just happens to be in between. A project
will need a leader or a core group who says what will be done
and carries the flag.
But if there is no leader it doesn't mean that a project is dead,
it's just suspended until someone else fills that role of a leader.
Sometimes it's even enough that the remaining people stay more or
less active to keep the project going. But for a start, there is
always a key person needed.
> Although I
> am not as great a man as they, I seem to be filling the same role
> here. Someone else needs to fill that role for OHF.
Is there nobody to fill that gap?
Attila Kinali
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