Good initiative. We (Zikzakmedia SL) think that Tryton needs to have his own foundation, so the project itself will not be controlled by a single/few company or individual in the future. In fact, we and other Spanish companies are evaluating the convenience to start working with this nice project that Tryton is, and start developing Spanish localization modules, depending on the creation of this foundation. We would like to avoid the blocking practices that other free licence ERPs have because they don't have any foundation that controls their strategic policy.
Our opinion between lines: > - The foundation aims are to promote Tryton: do marketing stuffs, > participate in booth, sponsors developments. The foundation will > not have its word on the technical side of Tryton. +1 > - The foundation will have a minimal board for the day to day > organisation. The board will be elected amongst members on a > yearly basis. +1 > - The foundation has two kind of membership: members and sponsors. +1 > - Members are the one that have a voice in the foundation > elections. +1 > - Members can be people or companies. Well, we would like more that members (who have voice in the foundation elections) were only people and sponsors people or companies, like other free software foundations like in KDE. In this way, the foundation has less dependence of the companies, but the companies can sponsor it getting some public visibility, for example. > - The members should pay a annual fees to renew their membership. > This fee is higher when the member is a company. We think is better that the resources are obtained from the sponsors. The members must be elected by meritocracy (participation in the tryton project), not if the can afford or not an annual fee. > - To became a member someone/the company has to follow this > scheme: > - Being proposed by one (or maybe more) of the actual members > - Being accepted after a vote at the majority of voters +1 > - Members can be excluded after a vote at a special majority (to > be defined) +1 > - Documents and other things created by the foundation must be > released under a free licence (the definition of free is the one > of the FSF). +1 > - Status can be change after a vote at a special majority (to be > defined) I don't understand this last point. Status of what can be changed? The important think in the creation of the foundation is that a single company could no block the strategic policy of Tryton in the future. And thanks for this nice piece of code that Tryton is becoming and for starting the debate of Tryton foundation, Jordi Esteve Consultor Zikzakmedia SL -- [email protected] mailing list
