[Gimp-user] Re: [Gimp-developer] more GIMP foundation stuff
Daniel Rogers wrote: So, I noticed the resounding silence surrounding this thread. Is anyone still interested in a foundation? I went into this foundation thing thinking I had support from the community. I cannot do this all by myself. The Foundation is about getting involved. If noone wishes to get involved, then there is nothing left I can do. Here are the things left to do. Within a week I need to get the parts in red of the draft bylaws fleshed out at at least the majority satisfiaction of the community. In addition to the red parts, the membership section needs to be writtin. The week is gone, obviously, but this still needs to be done. I just lose legal support for a while after a few days, which is ok. I just slows things down a bit. Do these issues interest anyone in particular? I need to appoint an initial board, whose job will be to set up a membership system, start collecting members, and allow those members to vote in a non-interim board (any takers?) To be a little more clear: I need volunteers to be an initial board of directors. I need to send in the corporate paperwork to the IRS (with the filing fee) and wait a few months for the IRS to send some questions answer those questions, and wait a few more months to get our non-profit status approved. Instead of all this though, I've been talking to Tim Ney about having the GNOME Foundation take a more active role in supporting the GIMP. If GNOME was willing to do this, this would probably be a good option for us. Gnome already has the infrastruction and ability to act as a non-profit, as well as plenty of corporate suppport. What do people think of this plan? Again, to be a little more clear. GNOME would like to support us more than just in name. All we (e.g. more than just me) have to do is say yes. It is unclear, at this point, how exactly GNOME would be involved with The GIMP, but those details could be worked out. Does this interest anyone? Is anyone outright opposed (and why)? -- Dan ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: [Gegl-developer] Re: [Gimp-developer] more GIMP foundation stuff
Daniel Rogers wrote: Daniel Rogers wrote: So, I noticed the resounding silence surrounding this thread. Is anyone still interested in a foundation? I went into this foundation thing thinking I had support from the community. I cannot do this all by myself. The Foundation is about getting involved. If noone wishes to get involved, then there is nothing left I can do. Well, I started to read the bylaws and was overwhelmed a bit. Being totally unfamiliar with stuff like this, I found it a bit too much to read, comprehend and evaluate in one week... maybe this happened to others as well? I need to appoint an initial board, whose job will be to set up a membership system, start collecting members, and allow those members to vote in a non-interim board (any takers?) To be a little more clear: I need volunteers to be an initial board of directors. Might be an important question: does one have to live in the US to be able to become a director? (and/or president, secreatary, treasurer, ...) Michael -- The GIMP http://www.gimp.org| IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/gimp Sodipodi http://sodipodi.sf.net | IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/sodipodi ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Some questions about Gimp.
Hi, Nonexistent Entity [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adobe OpenType is a new font standard developed jointly with MS, that has Type1 extra features and quality and is replacing TrueType. Pango supports OpenType rather well and GIMP uses Pango for font rendering so I wonder why it doesn't work for you. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] dynamic text glow, what happened to them?
Hi, Linux GIMP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been using GIMP 2.0 for a while now with my Gentoo box (in case that factors in) and I'm wondering what happened to the dynamic text and glow filters? I used the bejezus out of those things now they seem to be gone. I have looked about, thinking maybe they moved, but no such luck. What is the story? The new text tool replaces the GDynText plug-in and it even attempts to do a reasonable job at importing GIMP-1.2 GDynText layers. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: dynamic text glow, what happened to them?
Hi, Linux GIMP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, then maybe I'm missing it, but how do I change the font size using the text tool in 2.0? I found how to change the fonts colour, but not font size. Also I would say that the text tool is not near as good when it comes to justifying text. It only does centered text unlike dynamic text which would do left, centered or right. It's all in the text tool options and it does justification also. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Re: more GIMP foundation stuff
Michael Schumacher wrote: Daniel Rogers wrote: Daniel Rogers wrote: So, I noticed the resounding silence surrounding this thread. Is anyone still interested in a foundation? I went into this foundation thing thinking I had support from the community. I cannot do this all by myself. The Foundation is about getting involved. If noone wishes to get involved, then there is nothing left I can do. Well, I started to read the bylaws and was overwhelmed a bit. Being totally unfamiliar with stuff like this, I found it a bit too much to read, comprehend and evaluate in one week... maybe this happened to others as well? Ah, well. . .err, um. Fair enough. I forget that I've been stewing in this stuff for month. Most of this is boiler plate and echos the laws that we are required to follow anyway. If anyone is overwhelmed by any bit of it, it is just fine to discuss what you want in normal person terms. I need to appoint an initial board, whose job will be to set up a membership system, start collecting members, and allow those members to vote in a non-interim board (any takers?) To be a little more clear: I need volunteers to be an initial board of directors. Might be an important question: does one have to live in the US to be able to become a director? (and/or president, secreatary, treasurer, ...) No. As I think I mentioned before you don't need to live in the US or even have to be 18 (though you have a hard time entering contracts if you are less then 18 so 18 is a practical requirement). It gets complicated if TGF tries to employ non-us people (though it can be done), however the directors should probably not be compensated anyway. And to clarify: there are two structures that must exist in a corporation. There is the board of the directors, which make general descsions, are voted in by the members, can enter contracts, hire people, and delagate tasks to others. The number of directors as well as the amount of directors that qualify as a quorum and the percentage that qualifies as a majority can all be set in the bylaws. The second structure is the officers. These are the people like the president, tresurer, and secratary. The duties of these officers are set in the bylaws. The president usually is respnosible for hiring and the day to day activities of the corporation. The tresurer is in charge of the finances. The secretary records the minutes of the board meetings. The board members can be officers and are generally appointed by the board. The president or the secretary can not be same person as the tresurer. -- Dan ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] bylaws discussion part 1: objectives
Ok, So I think the best way to approach this is to break the bylaws in to the relevent bits and encourage discussion on a single small topic at a time. So, the first part that needs to be discussed are the objectives. These are, in their way, rather important. The objectives are what define the purpose of TGF as a charitable organization. These is the section that the IRS looks at to determine if we even can be classified as a charitable organization. There are two ways to approach this. One is to determine our objectives and then, when writing to the IRS, explain how the objectives fit into the charitable and educational purposes. This is pretty easy as long as we declare charitable purposes. Phrases like, Support the Free Software product, The GIMP and a charitable service available to the public. Educate the public about the existance and usage of The GIMP. Promote and support projects that support The GIMP. We should use the words, public, charitable, educate, support The IRS likes those words. They should be vague enough to not hinder our ability to do work. In short, what would people like TGF to do for them or for people in general? Remember, in order to be a non-profit, we need to do actions that support the public, not just ourselves, which I can't imagine anyone here having a problem with. -- Dan ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
