Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-02 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Drew, Doug, Am 02.10.2010 06:32, schrieb Drew Jensen: Agreed - and to put it simply, then let's start the process of starting such an organization. You are welcome, and I think, there is real need for an organization in US. But (just advice from someone who is co-founder of two such

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-02 Thread Robert Sedak
On 1.10.2010 15:25, Andre Schnabel wrote: Hi, Original-Nachricht Von: Gianluca Turconi gianl...@letturefantastiche.com Should Germany be the chosen country in order to register the foundation or is that point a work in progress too? It's in progress. We (speaking of

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-01 Thread Sophie
Hi Gianluca, Gianluca Turconi wrote: Hello *, I'm a supporter and contributor of the OpenOffice.org Project since the very beginning (Yeah, I was there in 2000 :-) Happy to see you here :) I'm trying to have a full picture about what is happening. Is The Document Foundation a *real*

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-01 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Alexander Thurgood wrote: Nice to see you are still around :-)), and those are useful questions that you raise;-) Hi, Alex! We're a bit older (nearly a decade, indeed!), but *both*, you and me, are still around. That's good, isn't it? ;-P I saw mention in one of the responses from one of

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-01 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Sophie wrote: Happy to see you here :) Me too! :) Currently it's a group and the Foundation is not up yet, we will set it up with the community members who wish to contribute to it. We are planing to write a charter, organization, governance, duties, etc... not only the small group who has

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-01 Thread RA Stehmann
Gianluca Turconi schrieb: Sophie wrote: Happy to see you here :) Me too! :) Currently it's a group and the Foundation is not up yet, we will set i t up with the community members who wish to contribute to it. We are planing to write a charter, organization, governance, duties, etc... n ot

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-01 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, Original-Nachricht Von: Gianluca Turconi gianl...@letturefantastiche.com Should Germany be the chosen country in order to register the foundation or is that point a work in progress too? It's in progress. We (speaking of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. in this

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-01 Thread Danishka Navin
Original-Nachricht Von: Gianluca Turconi gianl...@letturefantastiche.com Should Germany be the chosen country in order to register the foundation or is that point a work in progress too? It's in progress. We (speaking of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. in this case) are

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-01 Thread Doug Bash
--- On Fri, 10/1/10, Andre Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net wrote: From: Andre Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group? To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 6:25 AM Hi, Original-Nachricht Von

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group?

2010-10-01 Thread Drew Jensen
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 21:26 -0700, Doug Bash wrote: --- On Fri, 10/1/10, Andre Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net wrote: From: Andre Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] Foundation or Group? To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 6