[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope Foundation is incorporated!

[Rob Page]

At long last the Zope Foundation is incorporated!

Thanks to everyone who has helped get the Foundation to
this point!!

What's next?

  o Complete ZF organizational paperwork with Software
Freedom Law Center

  o Migrate Committers from the Zope Corp Committer
agreement to the Zope Foundation Committer
Agreement

  o Open the ZF up to membership

  o Conduct elections of BoD members

We are seeking volunteers to help with v0.1 of an
electronic voting application.  We would like to target
The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work for this
iteration.  If you would like to contribute to an
extremely important part of the launch of the Zope
Foundation, please reply to the Foundation mailing
list - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks!!

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Rob Page   V: 540 361 1710
Zope Corporation   F: 703 995 0412




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[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope Foundation

[Rob Page]

Zope Corporation has begun the process of creating a
Zope Foundation.  The Zope Foundation will provide a
mechanism for managing the various Zope projects (e.g.,
Zope 2, the Zope CMF, Zope 3, and other Zope community
projects) in a vendor neutral way.

The Foundation will have global copyrights over the Zope
source code (to include Zope 2, Zope 3, and any other
projects managed by the Foundation) as well as a
limited, world-wide, non-exclusive, irrevocable,
perpetual license to use the Zope trademarks (i.e.,
Zope and the Circle Z) to brand its software
releases.

In addition, zope.org will be operated and maintained
by the Foundation.

The Foundation's governance mechanisms are being
developed by taking the most appropriate ideas from
other leading open source projects.  These mechanisms
are being developed and legally reviewed.

We will launch the Foundation by or before the end of
October 2005.

We have scheduled an IRC session to answer questions
from the community about the Foundation.

IRC Session Summary:

  - Who:  Zope Corp and Zope Community
  - What: IRC session to discuss the Zope Foundation
  - When: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10a - 12p (US EDT)
  - Where: irc.freenode.net #zope

Please send specific questions to:

  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

We hope to see you there!

Regards,
Rob

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Zope CorporationF: 703.995.0412

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