Le jeudi 24 août 2006 à 22:30 +0200, Lourens Veen a écrit : > On Thursday 24 August 2006 16:38, Terry Hancock wrote: > > > > I think Timothy's bullet points are great. I can't really think of > > any improvements on them. > > Agreed, except that I would permute them a bit. That is: > > - Generally promote open hardware as an important paradigm shift in > the IT industry. > - Develop specifications and standards for open hardware systems. > - Act as an elected community representative body that makes various > kinds of decisions regard to open hardware development strategy. > - Develop training materials and educate people in hardware design > methodologies. > - Use donations to subsidize developers who need hardware in order to > participate in open hardware projects. > > This way, the overarching goal is first, followed by more specific > activities that the OHF will undertake to achieve that goal. > > Actually, looking at it again, "that makes various kinds of decisions > [with] regard to open hardware development strategy" is rather vague. > Can we work out a more precise description of what we really mean here? May be one should not be precise indeed. OHF will be tied to his purpose, that is, if it's about hardware, it's not about software or something else. Understand that, the more the purpose is precise, the more anybody could tell us: "what are you doing here is out of your purpose" Then, the best to write would be: "Act as an elected community representative body about the open hardware development strategy." The most important in this sentence is OHF as a representative body. Nonetheless, all these points mention nothing about the OHF's means to fulfill his purpose, though, the word "strategy" implies some goals, thus some means. As well, the use of donations is tied to subsidizing developers but, not for the training materials and education ? What are the means for that ? So, one better has to write: "- subsidize developers who need hardware in order to participate in open hardware projects." and "- the foundation uses donations and any mean appropriate to fulfill his purpose" I'm pretty sure that there's a formula about the means in any non-lucrative body.
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