Hi,
Michael Schumacher wrote:
Daniel Rogers wrote:
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. For example,
Carol Spears wrote:
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 09:44:49AM +0200, Marc A. Lehmann wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:00:17PM -0700, Daniel Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've put it here: http://www.phasevelocity.org/bylaws.doc These bylaws
Woaw, the bylaws for a free software organisation,
Michael Schumacher wrote:
Carol Spears wrote:
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 09:44:49AM +0200, Marc A. Lehmann wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:00:17PM -0700, Daniel Rogers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've put it here: http://www.phasevelocity.org/bylaws.doc These bylaws
Woaw, the bylaws for a
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
Hi,
Daniel Rogers wrote:
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
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
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 09:44:49AM +0200, Marc A. Lehmann wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:00:17PM -0700, Daniel Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've put it here: http://www.phasevelocity.org/bylaws.doc These bylaws
Woaw, the bylaws for a free software organisation, written in a
Hi again,
I have almost completed all the paperwork to get The GIMP Foundation up
and running. The last slightly compliciated bit left is to get the
bylaws finished.
I have a draft version of the bylaws that need a few gaps filled in.
I've put it here: http://www.phasevelocity.org/bylaws.doc
On 8 Mar 2004, at 23:09, Kelly Martin wrote:
Sven Neumann wrote:
If sueing copyright violators is the main goal, I'd rather let the
Free Software Foundation do this job. It is probably in a lot better
position when it should ever come to a law-suit.
The FSF can't sue someone unless it
Hello,
First of all I'd like to thank Daniel for putting a lot of work into
investigating what needs to be done in order to launch The GIMP
Foundation.
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 15:58, Daniel Rogers wrote:
THINGS TO BE DECIDED
[snip]
1. Will TGF have members? I am talking about members with
Hi all,
Sven Neumann wrote:
Also, so far the FSF
has done a great job at funding our developer conferences. So we
should really have good reasons to form our own foundation since I
don't expect the FSF to grant any more fundings as soon as The GIMP
Foundation has been created. This is not a vote
Nathan Carl Summers wrote:
Is this required to be in person, or is conference call/irc/email/etc
sufficient? Furthermore, is it possible for board members to be
reimbursed for expenses? I can see this being a major obstacle for non-us
residents otherwise.
Kelly already answered the first part,
Nathan Carl Summers wrote:
If you are a board member you must:
Attend board meetings.
Is this required to be in person, or is conference call/irc/email/etc
sufficient? Furthermore, is it possible for board members to be
reimbursed for expenses? I can see this being a major obstacle for non-us
Daniel Rogers wrote:
1. I heard that some people have been asked to be on the board, why
weren't the developers consulted? I'm a developer, why wasn't I asked?
Who are these board members?
Keep in mind that developers will not necessarily make good board members. The
sort of decisions that a
Sven Neumann wrote:
If sueing copyright violators is the main goal, I'd rather let the
Free Software Foundation do this job. It is probably in a lot better
position when it should ever come to a law-suit.
The FSF can't sue someone unless it owns at least some part of the code in
question. The
Hello again,
It has been awhile since I have done a GIMP Foundation update. There
is quite a bit that must be decided on at this point. Also, people need
to decide how invovled they would like to be.
Summary:
My Goals,
Benefits of incorporation
responsibilites of those invovled
things to be
Here is few notes to address a few more concerns I have encountered,
I'll pose them retorically.
1. I heard that some people have been asked to be on the board, why
weren't the developers consulted? I'm a developer, why wasn't I asked?
Who are these board members?
In California every corporation
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Daniel Rogers wrote:
Hello again,
It has been awhile since I have done a GIMP Foundation update. There
is quite a bit that must be decided on at this point. Also, people need
to decide how invovled they would like to be.
My goals for The GIMP really boil down to
Hi,
Nathan Carl Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In my mind one of the major reasons to have a Gimp Foundation is to put
all of our IP ducks in a row. As I've said before I don't think that
having contributors sign over copyright to TGF would be the best plan.
Instead, I would like to see
On 8 Mar 2004, Sven Neumann wrote:
Hi,
Nathan Carl Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In my mind one of the major reasons to have a Gimp Foundation is to put
all of our IP ducks in a row. As I've said before I don't think that
having contributors sign over copyright to TGF would be the
Daniel Rogers wrote:
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As was discussed at Gimp Con 2003 (and before, frankly) I am in the
process of incorporating The GIMP Foundation as a
Also,
I fear my first email may have been a bit to rambling to be able to actually get my point
across.
What I am hoping to discover by encourging this conversation is what ways people would
like to help with TGF and in what ways people would like to see TGF help them.
I would also like to
Carol Spears wrote:
When I looked into this sometime back, I watched the gnome foundation
elections on the irc. This is probably not the best view of a
foundation, however, I really wanted nothing to do with it.
We don't need to structure our Foundation (or even have membership) if we don't want
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As was discussed at Gimp Con 2003 (and before, frankly) I am in the
process of incorporating The GIMP Foundation as a non-profit
organization devoted
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